[Ardour-Dev] waveform display for master track

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:

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> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, plutek-infinity wrote:
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>> >  Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:57:26 +0100 (CET)
>> >  From: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no>
>> 
>> > > 
>> > >  Perhaps a waveform would be good as well, but I think something
>> > >  like this would be much better:
>> > > 
>> > >  http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~ksvalast/ardourmaster.jpg
>> > > 
>> > >  And this is quite trivial to implement as well.
>> > > 
>> > 
>> >  Oh, and those lines are supposed to be straight. :-)
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>>  perhaps you would explain what, exactly, those lines are meant to show --
>>  i don't quite understand. it looks like they simply correspond to the
>>  presence/absence of some region in some track. would they provide more
>>  information, that i am missing?
>> 
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> I don't think you're missing anything. That's what they are there for.
> It's practical to have a more compact view of which tracks are played.
> Less time zooming, scrolling, enabling/disabling tracks etc. Easier to find 
> out which track a specific sound belongs to.
>

Oh, and the master track should have a fixed and separated position. Ie. 
when scrolling down, the master track is still at the top of the window,
if enabled.