Phase 4: Recording.
Thanks for chiming in guys. It took a lot of coding to get the interface to work, but getting the 40+ plugins to work was no problem. The general recommended package is LADSPA. I actually downloaded this before I downloaded the Ubuntu Studio package, but it is claimed to be included with this package.
I first messed around with recording simple mic checks in a bunch of tracks in Ardour. There was an immediate warning when I opened ardour that the Latency would be 23 ms and the sample rate would be 41k. I assume this is because of the Tascam 122.
I noticed the latency while recording, but no buffer pops.
Later I mixed some things down from my 8 track Otari and that went very well. Plugins can be accessed through the mixer sends/inserts or you can route your tracks through Jamin or Rezound, two mastering programs. Apparently, Rezound is limited to 16 bit, which will probably disappoint a lot of people.
Everything ran really well except a couple of the built in plugins on Rezound.
With Linux, there are always going to be some weird bugs, but I still think its worth it. I really like the layout of Ardour and apparently there is a modification to allow other official plugins to work on Ardour. I'm going to continue experimenting, but for now it feels pretty stable.
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