[LAD] A3 clicks

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:24:29AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> > inevitable, since you are changing the order of processors in the channel
> > strip. in some setups, you will notice the click as this happens, in
> others
> > you will not.
>
> This makes A3 unusable for live work. For the simple reason that nobody
> expects
> such a thing to happen, not any more than e.g. using a PFL should cause
> clicks.
> I will refrain from mentioning the not-so-kind adjectives that would be
> used
> to describe a HW mixer doing such a thing.
>

add it to the list of several hundred other items that all make A3 unusable
for this or that.


>
> > i considered a design in which every possible metering point had a "tap"
> > already in place, but this doesn't work for the "custom" option, hence
> the
> > current design.
>
> Why shouldn't that work for the custom point ? After all it *is* a 'tap'
> and not a processor. And even if it is implemented as a processor (with an
> audio output that downstream depends on),


processors can be implemented that have no (builtiin) output, and the meter
is one of them.

the custom point could just stay
> in place once created, along with any other metering point, active or not.
> As a bonus you can at least see were it is, even if not active. ISTR things
> were like that in earlier releases, but I could be mistaken.
>

you're mistaken, unfortunately. the custom metering point has always been
"special", and does not exist when metering is set to pre/input/post.
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