[LAD] Non Session Management

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:26:16AM +0200, Lieven Moors wrote:

> So the shared data would not be read-only after all...

It is read-only to all the sessions in which it is
used for mixdown into some format. It is evidently
not read-only to the session that created that data.

> Isn't this a little bit dangerous?

Not if you have a well defined workflow and know what
you are doing, and I generally do.

> I can see this could work with certain kinds of apps
> that are non-destructive. But how do you know that
> doing edits to the data in one session doesn't make
> the other invalid.

Because I know what I'm doing. If I edit the original
recording for some reason (e.g. replacing a few measures
by another take), then I expect the mixdown sessions to
pick up the change if they are re-run. If I wouldn't
want that I'd duplicate the data into each mixdown 
session instead. The 'dangerous' thing happens only
because I want it. Having the option to do this doesn't
affect any other user who doesn't want to do the same.

Ciao,

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