[Ardour-Dev] waveform display for master track

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, plutek-infinity wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:49:37 +0100 (CET)
>> From: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no>
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, plutek-infinity wrote:
>>>
>>>>>  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. :-)
>>>>
>>>>  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?
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> hmmm... ok, that might be useful, especially if one could click on one of the lines and be "transported" immediately to the cooresponding track, even with all tracks at some large vertical zoom. although it would likely become hard to know what all the lines mean, if one has lots of tracks in a session. however, it doesn't address the OP's request, since there is no level information.
>

To a certain degree, it actually does, because larger differences
in sound level usually happens when a file starts or stops playing.