1 Oct
2008
1 Oct
'08
4:29 p.m.
I had a feeling you would say something to that effect. :) I suppose
it makes sense. I can imagine plenty of scenarios where Ardour would
work perfectly for doing a live/monitor mix this way. One could even
have presets stored as snapshots, and call them up remotely via MIDI
or OSC. Is that currently possible? Is anyone using Ardour this way
right now? Now if only 24+ channel Linux-friendly interfaces would
get super cheap...
Sean Corbett
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 13:25 -0400, Sean Corbett
wrote:
This is probably just a way-out-there
nobody-will-take-the-time idea,
but has anyone ever thought of splitting the mixer part of Ardour from
the DAW part? So that e.g. if you do strictly outboard mixing, you
don't need to fire up Ardour's mixer, or more importantly, if all you
need is a mixer and plugin-patch-points (as Alex does), you can fire
up Ardour's mixer standalone?
this idea is based on a misconception about how ardour works internally.
"mixing" is 100% the same as the basic signal processing that occurs on
every "signal processing route" (known to users as tracks & busses). you
can't "separate" this from mixing, but you don't have to have the
editor
involved at all.
if you want ardour as just a mixer, you create a session with only
busses, then you hide the editor window and show just the mixer.
et voila.
--p