[ardour-users] Re: Pre-Roll?

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 6 October 2005 at 21:16, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> > Sorry to be patheticly dense, but I still don't know how to get
> > pre-roll in Ardour.  Could anyone please give me the remedial
> > version?
> 
> based on my understanding of your definition, you can't. if a region
> starts only 2 beats into the timeline, there is no way whatsoever to get
> more than 2 beats of preroll. my understanding is that you do want more
> than that.

You understand what I want to do.

> you can move all regions along the timeline at once, if that would help.

OK.  That's what I'll do.  I'll explore some alternative methods to 
achieve a reasonable substitute for pre-roll and post something back 
here after that.  A real pre-roll feature would be quite nice, should 
it find its way into Ardour.

Thanks all... 

--
Kevin