[Ardour-Dev] waveform display for master track

[Patrick Shirkey]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:48 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>   
>>> Although I don't know ardours internals very well, I think it
>>> should be very easy. Using Torbehns suggestion to
>>> add an "-export" command to Ardour, the feature can be
>>> implemented like this:
>>>
>>> void update_master_thread(){
>>>    while(true){
>>>       wait(update_master);
>>>       save_session("/tmp/tmp.session"));
>>>       system("ardour -export /tmp/tmp.wav /tmp/tmp.session");
>>>       insert_wav_in_mastertrack("/tmp/tmp.wav");
>>>    }
>>> }
>>>       
>
> this is simply broken for all kinds of reasons that i am not going to
> begin to explain.
>
>   
>>> void ARDOUR::something_has_changed_somewhere_callback(){
>>>   signal(update_master);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> It's not a very efficient solution, but maybe good enough.
>>>       
>
> not only will it not work very well, but its more time consuming, more
> problematic and involves more work than the tape mode track solution and
> does save *any* disk space at all! 
>
>   
I would like to point out that saving disk space is not the point of 
this feature. It was merely a suggestion for something that *could* have 
been achieved if suitable. The point of this functionality is to save 
people time from having to record and wait for the master track to be 
processed while they are working on a long session.

The idea was to have this process handled in the background while the 
user is working on other parts of a mix.

> if this solution is supposed to be "workable" then the tape mode track
> solution should be "fantastic".
>
>
>   
Rightly so.

In that case would it be acceptable to have the process automated or is 
that just not going to happen?





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Patrick Shirkey
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