[ardour-dev] How many layers?

[Paul Davis]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 21:41 -0500, vze26m98 wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote on 3/3/07 at 9:19 PM
> So I'd set up a session with the required tracks and import my audio as
> regions, then generate track playlists based on the information from the
> .ardour file. Then I'd just paste my playlists back into the original
> .ardour file.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions on layer numbering, then?

no layer is permitted to contain more than 1 region. i suggest just
starting at 1 and going up from there. its a 32 bit value, so hopefully
4 billion layers will serve your purposes.

> BTW: I've been looping ranges as small as 51 samples and the playback
> performance of Ardour 2.0beta is way better than 0.99 on my PPC iBook.
> Congrats!

glad to hear. ardour-the-granular-synth coming your way, then :)

--p