[Ardour-Dev] waveform display for master track

Jörn Nettingsmeier nettings at stackingdwarves.net
Mon Nov 17 09:23:06 PST 2008


John Rigg wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:00:20AM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While working on the LAM mix it has occurred to me that a rather handy 
>> feature would be if Ardour could generate a waveform display of the 
>> master out.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this would need to be possible in realtime but it would 
>> certainly be handy for getting a quick visual reference of the complete 
>> session for a long playing DJ mix.
> 
> If you record the master out to a stereo track you'll have
> a waveform display and also have an audible reference :-)

and in fact that's the only sane way to do it. a bus cannot have a
waveform (that requires a history and stored data). there is no such
thing as a "realtime waveform". if you just want a few bars of history
to look at which then are discarded, you could attach a scrolling scope
via jack (fons did one iirc), or keep a rt spectrum analyser running
(one with history, such as baudline, which is closed source, though).



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