funkmuscle wrote:
I got the 2i2 due to everyone saying they got better latency performance.
I don't think you have a kernel or soundcard issue there. I wouldn't be able to run Ardour either with those jack settings without a flock of xruns.
This is my low latency setting for Guitarix (since there's just no other way), but qtractor, hydrogen and renoise work also relatively ok If I take it easy on the plugins (that means none). Ardour just doesn't. I don't think those DAWs were ever supposed to be used at 2ms latency with a software tube emulation running on the same system, but rather at 10-20ms and compensate for input latencies. Things are getting better over the years, but we need to keep realistic expectations here. Or maybe on a Mac with a thunderbolt interface?
Some ideas nevetheless:
- Try Ardour standalone with the alsa backend, it gives a lot less xruns. I just tried with 5.8 and it is actually quite ok at 96K*64b*3p. Probably not for a fat session with a thousand tracks, but it seems to be workable.
- Use 3 periods, not 2 (that's the "usb tax").
- Try 96Khz. I have the impression that the 2i2 just performs better at 96k than 44.1 or 48 when it comes to xruns.
- Forget about fat desktop environments. To get there I'm not using Gnome or KDE... Some people seem to have no problem though (hi Crocoduck), but this could be worth a try.