[ardour-users] scenes anyone?

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 20:27 +0100, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at doink.com>:
> > On 9 January 2006 at 12:47, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> 
> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 09:03 -0800, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > > > Hmm, let me pursue this a bit further.  Let's say I have an
> > > > ardour project named 'song'.  I open that project with ardour
> > > > and save a few snapshots, keeping the default dates for names.
> > > > Eventually, I save a snapshot called 'rec_setup'.  Later when
> > > > I start ardour I open the rec_setup .ardour file in the 'song'
> > > > project.  I believe that 'song' and 'rec_setup' coexist just
> > > > fine, since all of the .ardour files are in the same directory,
> > > > and each of the snapshots refer to the same set of song files,
> > > > automation files, etc.  Is my understanding about right?  Sorry
> > > > if I'm being dense.  If I am understanding right, then I'll use
> > > > snapshots like 'rec_setup' for my scenes with reckless abandon,
> > > > and likely be quite happy with the results.
> > >
> > > completely correct.
> >
> > Yeeha.  Thanks!
> 
> Kevin, I have some hair left to split =:) Snapshots are sessions really. 
> They *can* look at the same set of audio data, automation etc but they 
> don't have to. If for some reason you want audio from your "rec_setup" 
> to show up in "song_practice" you'll have to "import an external 
> soundfile".

i'll nitpick.

they are not sessions, because sessions are represented on disk by a
folder, not a file.

it is true that if you add new audio to one snapshot, it is not visible
in the others. but thats nature of a snapshot: its one time-based
version of the session. each time you take a snapshot, you create a
potential branch in the history of the session. you are free to follow
many branches, but more work (currently manual) is required to merge
them back together again.

--p