[Ardour-Dev] [Ardour-Cvs] r6915 - in ardour2/branches/2.0-ongoing/libs/ardour: . ardour

[Paul Davis]

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2010/4/16 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings at stackingdwarves.net>:
> On 04/16/2010 05:14 PM, pauld at addisababa.dreamhost.com wrote:
>> when a region has less channels than its diskstream needs, read a relevant channel instead (this makes mono regions in stereo tracks become effectively multi-mono)
>
> why? this looks like it hides user errors (usually, dumping such a
> region into a multichannel track is unintentional) and applies some
> guesswork that will do the wrong thing in most cases, i.e. for pretty
> much everything except mono-region-dumped-to-stereo-track.

there's no good default choice when this happens. what happens now is,
i suggest, better than what used to happen. a better solution would
require asking the user what to do, which gets *really* hairy.