Not awake enough to debate here, but my memory and your's of Ardour's behavior doesn't seem to be matching up I don't believe. But I ened more sleep before I really dig into that.
Seablade
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:14:50PM -0400, Thomas Vecchione wrote:You always have that ability, even if you allow others not
> Personally I prefer Ardour's behavior myself. I do keep my samples on an
> external drive, but in the end the ability to maintain a self-contained
> session for portability purposes is important to me.
to use it. And if you don't allow that, as Ardour does when
by chance it can, it's no longer an 'ability' but something
forced onto you.
Ciao,
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