On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Paul Davis
<paul@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