[ardour-dev] Creating sound files

[John Emmas]

Thanks Paul - that makes a lot more sense now !!

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Davis" <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
To: "John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <ardour-dev at lists.ardour.org>
Sent: 06 June 2007 12:04
Subject: Re: [ardour-dev] Creating sound files


> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:30 +0100, John Emmas wrote:
> > At the moment, I'm trying to figure out the relationship between
Playlists,
> > Regions, Diskstreams and Sources in an Ardour XML file.
> >
> > >From what I can see a Playlist corresponds to what you might call a
'track'
> > on a multitrack tape.  Regions seem to correspond to 'sounds' recorded
> > on the tape.  And Sources seem to be the actual files that contain the
audio
> > data.
> >
> > What I can't figure out is where Diskstreams come into the equation....
> > Diskstreams seem to be connected with Playlists but I'm not sure how or
why.
> > Is there always one Diskstream for each Playlist?  Or can there be more
than
> > one?  Or can one Diskstream be referenced by several Playlists?  Or can
a
> > Playlist have some other kind of stream that isn't a Diskstream?  I'm
sure
> > it must all make sense when you understand it...!
>
> you can think of a playlist as a tape, and a diskstream as the tape
> player. when we save state, we record what playlist the diskstream was
> "loaded with" at that time. a diskstream only ever has one, and only
> one, playlist. it never has more or less. playlists, however, have an
> independent life - they exist whether or or not anything is using them,
> and many diskstreams can all be playing the same playlist.
>
> the playlist is simply a time-ordered series of regions or "events".
> regions are just references to parts of one or more sources (right now,
> in 2.0-ongoing and earlier, a region only references a single source;
> that will change but in a recursive way).
>
>