24 May
2009
24 May
'09
1 a.m.
Check it, yo!: Fons Adriaensen was sayin:
By 'monitoring' here I mean the main studio monitors.
You should be able to listen to various things (including
monitor sends for musicians), and switch between them
easily and without interrupting the normal program flow.
Setting this up in a convenient way is currently near
impossible in Ardour. And if you emulate it using a lot
of extra strips etc. there is no visual hint of a 'safe'
area where whatever you do will never hurt the 'main'
outputs, and so you end up having to think twice before
pushing any button.
Have a look at what is provided in this area by some
'real' mixers, and ask the people who use them why
these things are what they are, and rather essential.
Ciao,
I find it very useful on the digital mixers (at least on ones like MC7L or
PM5D) where you can select a bus and the faders move to show the levels for
each channel being sent to the bus. This is often much more important than the
meter bridges, which only display the input levels off the head amps.
Perhaps you could have it set, either in the channels window or on a separate
meterbridge, where you can select a bus, and get a metering of each channel
reflecting the post send levels being sent to that bus. (This might be tough
given you can route buses to other buses)
I think in mixing that information is more important to me (especially for
live recording) than what standard scale is being used for the meters.
Personally, the meter standard being used doesn't mean much till I start
getting into mastering.
-Reuben
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:37:31PM -0400, Paul Davis
wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)kokkinizita.net>
wrote:
What Ardour is lacking is sort of 'monitoring'
window,
a place where you can select in a convenient way what
you hear, and how.
hear where? master outs? a listen bus? control outs bus? some other
bus(ses)? direct outs? there's no simple definition of "what you
hear". there might be N listeners at one time. whose monitoring is
being affected?