[ardour-users] A hundred tracks and counting...

[Jan Depner]

Didn't beta 11 use the old LADSPA plugin setup?  If you only have a few
plugins going just do what Jesse suggested (save everything) and you can
add back in the plugin parameters by looking at the old .ardour files.

Jan



On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:16, Jesse Chappell wrote:
> josh wrote on Tue, 24-Aug-2004:
> 
>  > josh wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Well, I'm in full-swing recording a rock/pop record on Ardour.
>  >
>  > And FWIW, I'm running 0.9beta11.
>  > 
>  > I have not "upgraded" for fear of running into an issue and not being 
>  > able to use the session files in the version that I've found to be 
>  > stable. That's why I want to wait until I finish tracking to upgrade. At 
>  > this point, Ardour 0.9beta11 is working fine for tracking.
> 
> Depending on when you started this was probably a good choice
> at the time.  However, see below...
> 
>  > If anyone has any advice as to whether I should reconsider my plan of 
>  > waiting to upgrade until after I am finished tracking, then lay it on 
>  > me. Looks like there have been a LOT of feature upgrades, stability 
>  > fixes, etc., since 0.9beta11 but 1.0 is on the horizon so that seems 
>  > like the time to make the switch.
>  
> If you want to do any pre-mixing at all I strongly suggest you
> upgrade to 0.9beta19 now.  Specifically, the panning implementation
> is more powerful (and correct), and all things related to
> automation are much more useful.  
> 
> It's been so long since i've used beta11 that I don't even remember
> what other critically important things have been added or fixed
> :)
> 
> However, note that if you do upgrade now, you should back up all
> of your sessions (the .ardour files at least), and leave a copy
> of beta11 installed.  Once you take the plunge, the new sessions
> will not open in the older version.
> 
> The current beta19 has proven to be pretty stable by all the current
> users, and if you do run into problems, the developers (of which
> I am one) can help overcome them for the latest version (but not so, 
> if you get stuck with a show-stopper in the old version).
> 
> jlc
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