[LAD] Importing automation in Ardour

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:58 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:32:15PM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:
> 
> > both ardour track and plugin automation data is stored in text files,
> > named after 'projectname-plugin-trackid.automation'. The First line is
> > "version <num>" each line thereafter
> > 
> >    <type> <timestamp(in samples)> <value>
> > 
> > The only valid type is 'g' corresponding to  gain_automation_curve() see
> > libs/ardour/io.cc:1715 - it seems like plugin-automation use LADSPA-port
> > numbers as type; but I have not verified that in the source.
> 
> Interesting, I'll start experimenting with that.

its also not true anymore.

all automation is inlined inside the session XML file these days.

simplest thing is to create a super-simple test session, add 1 plugin
with 2 params, record some automation for both, inspect session file.

--p