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

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:37:31PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> hmm. i don't agree. when channels are silenced, then either you did it
> intentionally and it's ok, or your error becomes really obvious and you
> can react properly. this new solution just hides the problem. and it
> accomplishes nothing you couldn't do before: if you really want that
> mono channel to go to both outputs, you can simply use the first panner
> and move it to the center.
> i still maintain that for all other cases, duplicating a channel (which
> one? why?) is wrong. second-guessing the user is always wrong imho.

I strongly agree with Joern on this matter.

There is/was a similar issue that makes it impossible
to use plugins with more inputs than outputs even if
the I/O counts perfectly match those of the insert
point. 

Ciao,

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