Hi, thanks for releasing alpha and sharing video - good that weekend is coming :) Piano roll MIDI feature is really nice. However, where I can read about more features of ardour 3 / maybe same page with development status? For example I am interested in VST support in a3 - I tried google and not sure how valid is answer fro 2009: http://ardour.org/node/3071 And of course would like to read about what to test and so on. Regards, Rafał -- Rafal bluszcz Zawadzki Django / Plone / Python / dub / drum&bass http://dev.bluszcz.net/tech-blog http://soundcloud.com/bluszcz

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:19:08 +0000, allcoms <allcoms(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi allcoms, thanks for your fully reply - I am going to try it for sure with mastering new track. Cheers! -- Rafal bluszcz Zawadzki Django / Plone / Python / dub / drum&bass http://dev.bluszcz.net/tech-blog http://soundcloud.com/bluszcz

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:40 AM, allcoms <allcoms(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for this. My comments: 1. Get rid of the first 11 minutes (or put that in its own video). I don't think and introduction to Ardour 3.0 should include talk about distros, etc. 2. I'd prefer to see an LV2 plugin as opposed to an external program (like specimen). With a plugin, you keep Ardour on screen for the entire video with the plugin's UI floating above it. With specimen, you're switching windows and distracting from the goal of the video. 3. If you do use specimen, have it running with a patch bank already installed. Don't include a mini-specimen tutorial inside this video. Ditto for Yoshimi and the jack-session stuff. 4. I probably have a shorter attention span than most everyone on the planet, but I'm at the 30 minute mark and you haven't played a single note yet. Maybe a series of shorter, more-specific videos would be good?

Hi Paul Coccoli! I was certainly considering this. Does anyone know of a good JACK, ALSA and FFADO tutorial video I could've referenced instead? It is essential that the viewer understand what all these are before the rest of the tutorial makes a jot of sense. The majority of people who do understand any or all of what these are are all reading this now essentially and these are alien terms to the general public or even people experienced in recording on other platforms. If you can show me a multi-timbral, velocity sensitive, MIDI automatable LV2 softsynth or a LV2 sampler with integrated GUI to equal specimen both of which can save and restore their settings then I'd love to know about it. AFAIK no such thing exists or at least not in a fully working state yet. I say as much in the video plus doing it the way I did allowed me to demonstrate JACK session. I was aiming for an all inclusive video here- all except how to use the unix command line and covering general MIDI/ digital music concepts (ie what is a sample etc.). People coming from the Win or Mac world will be aware of what a sample is and what a MIDI note channel is but they won't know diddly about JACK session and how to route a JACK softsynth. Whilst I expected the most interest from members of LA*, my target audience was the person who has used $favemusicapp but never used a Linux music app, JACK and friends before. I may redo this video after Ardour 3.0 has had a stable release or two made. By that time I'd like to think that we will have a wider choice of LV2 softsynths including a softsynth (almost) as good as yoshimi and maybe composite will have an integrated LV2 gui by then or another LV2 sample player will have been released? I spent as little time explaining Yoshimi and specimen as possible- only showing and explaining the total bare minimum in both cases. Thanks for the feedback - its much appreciated! Dan