[Ardour-Dev] waveform display for master track

[Quentin Harley]

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> Make a "Master" Track. Set it to record from master out l/r, rec enable
> and press play/record. Wait for session to be recorded. look at master
> peak file for level issues, adjust levels, re-record... 
>
> These steps could be automated and made a preference. There is also room
> to make this dynamic and less demanding of disk space by only generating
> a peak file and not the whole wave file aswell.
>
>   

You mean like a kind of macro - could work...

>> Ardour is not simply a DJ tracking tool (even though it is very useful 
>> as one)  Its primary goal of use is as a professional DAW, which it 
>> performs very well at the moment. 
>>     
>
> It's very useful as a mixing environment. IMO it's the best open source
> environment for mixing tracks/sessions/sound tracks.
>   

Never mind open source.  In my mind it knocks the socks of quite a few 
commercial DAW's...

>>  Please do not waste any processing 
>> power generating some graphical representation of an output that will 
>> most likely be false, and take a lot of resources to generate.
>>
>>     
>
> Some time spent on this feature will save a lot of people a lot of time
> in the future.
>
>   

I was referring to my time, not to mention the ardour developers' 
time...  I do not want to wait for some background operation to complete 
some aesthetic function while I could be doing something useful with 
that processing power.

>> Hard disk space is cheap, time is not.
>>     
>
>   

As long as the feature is not default, it is fine by me.  It just should 
not hamper the performance of ardour in any way.

Cheers
Q