18 Nov
2017
18 Nov
'17
2:22 p.m.
Fons Adriaensen <fons-dDzkXPnfpdzhj6bIAHgUAw(a)public.gmane.org> writes:
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 07:42:19AM +0100, Robin Gareus
wrote:
You cannot seamlessly exchange the plugins and other structure between
mono and stereo strips and they are also part of the track.
Many users want the other way: Combine a two mono
tracks to a stereo
track for shared editing or FX (and there's likewise no simple way to
do that in the editor alone, the tracks need to be a bounced).
Track-groups are the preferred way for this for edit operations.
subgroup-busses for FX.
The basic reason why solving this sort of problem requires some
non-trivial manipulations is Ardour's one-to-one mapping of editor
tracks and mixer strips. Which of course simplifies a lot of things,
it's not there without reason. A simple solution would be to have a routing option
between the track
outputs and strip inputs. Default would be one-to-one, but then at least
you can override it if you need to (and accept the consequences).
Well, the balance control is sort of a routing option. Personally I
think it would already help a lot if the strip output of stereo strips
could be assigned individually instead just to consecutive channel
pairs.
This would also provide a simple solution to a
requirement I face all
the time: routing a recorded track to more than one strip.
Well, you can route it to a bus and from there to several strips.
And having the bare track outputs available on Jack
outputs would
facilitate using an external (HW or SW) mixer.
Again, should work with a bus. I admit not having tried it.
--
David Kastrup