Master Bus Limiter Text

[joegiampaoli]

Just a quick reporting:

On the Master Bus Limiter I have these little squares where I assume I should have text saying something, probably a font compatibility issue?

Link to screenshot:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B89XHw6...sp=sharing

Didn't report before, thought it would be fixed since I saw the issue reported before, but maybe on Linux with XFCE environment must be something different.

Thanks!

---

Oh, those squares are actually leds? I just fired up Mixbus on windows 7 and saw them lit yellow, hmmm, ok, is the greyed squares normal in linux? Audio interface/settings specific?

[joegiampaoli]

I know that I should report this in the Windows section, but this is a follow up of this leds which I'm having a bit of issues in Windows7, the leds are constantly lit yellow as if there was a hot signal all the time, even without creating input buses or tracks. Having a few other Audio and stability issues with Mixbus3 in Windows, so as I have time I will help you figure out what's going on, will report all that as I test or actually fool around, because my main audio OS is Linux and I could practically care less, but I'll be glad to help. How to debug in Windows7 64-bit?

[x42]

Thanks for the heads up. The issue is currently present on all OS and it looks indeed like some unknown characters.

[durfnap]

No text. LED indicator that lid, when the limiter works!

[x42]

heh, indeed. I just managed to light 'em up. So just a bit of unfortunate visual design.

To answer your other question. You can run Mixbus in a cmd.exe shell on windows. It'll print similar output as doing the same i n a Terminal on OSX or Linux.

There are also debug-builds for windows (incl. gdb debugger), the procedure is the same as http://ardour.org/debugging_ardour except Mixbus debug builds are only available on request.

[joegiampaoli]

Ok, yeah I think I will need a debuggin' Mixbus for Windows, all leds are constantly on for limiter and all compressors on buses and tracks I add, no audio in session yet. I'm practically just fooling around now with Windows, because as I said before, Windows is not my main OS, but if I'm getting these issues I'll be glad to help (not very constantly because I am a bit tight on time at the moment), but if I'm getting these issues, probably someone else will at some point. On linux it's working practically flawlessly, I made those leds light up by increasing gains, but on Windows they are constantly on, also having ASIO/sound issues with my M-Audio Fast Track Pro on that OS, with Mixbus 2.5 it works perfectly fine, but with 3 it has sometimes even frozen the PC just configuring the Audio, I'll have to play a bit more with it on Windows to see and I will report all in the Windows Support forum as I go along...

I'll later try Mixbus from windows terminal to see if I can get anything, but I guess I'll request a debuggin' Mixbus to help you guys out if you wish.

[joegiampaoli]

@x42:

Before I go any further with testing (or fooling around), am I supposed to use Portaudio with the ASIO4ALL driver? I think I overlooked that one and it seems to all be working as expected that way, If I just select ASIO as Audio System and then select ASIO4ALL in the driver that's where I have issues like Mixbus3 hanging, system freezing, compressor levels at 100% (drawn fully red and master bus limiter yellow), etc... But with Portaudio all levels seem to be fine and Mixbus closes or terminates happily, is this a correct setting in Windows7?

[Ben@Harrison]

Hi Joe,

Yes, PortAudio is the new "default" engine and the old "ASIO" one will be removed soon.

[joegiampaoli]

Hey Ben!

Thanks, yes it seems to be much better with that setting, although, I still had a shutdown issue last night with Windows7 after closing Mixbus3, PC didn't shutdown nicely, just hung with absolutely zero response, had to force power off, I think something didn't terminate as it should. I'll do further testing on that, but I think it could of been from fiddling with the audio settings too much, if I do come across that again I'll let you know.

Cheers!