[ardour-users] a few issues in OSX

[Matthew Polashek]

Jesse Chappell wrote:

>On 1/21/06, Matthew Polashek <matt at tinysongs.com> wrote:
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>>        I've been editing some live trax in Ardour on OSX today.  Here are a few issues I've noticed.
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>> 1 - The keyboard commands don't work consistently.
>> 2 - When clicking on the Editor/Mixer button in the editor window, the track that is displayed is determined at random somehow.
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>Only the first time?  Selecting the track (by clicking on the
>background in the track header) should set it.
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OK, yep, that works just right.

>> 5 - SC4 doesn't really work.
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>I noticed this myself this weekend, i will look into it.
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>> 6 - When you run out of drive space, like when saving a session, Ardour can't figure out when you've made room.
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>What did you try to do?  Just save again?
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Well, I had to reboot before I could export the session.  I tried 
quitting Ardour, quiting X11, closing the session, ending the process.  
Rebooting was the only thing that worked.

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>> 7 - The recording time available is not determined correctly.
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>I'll look into it.
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>> 8 - Groups can only be assigned in the Editor window and they do not show up in the mixer window.
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>There are actually two kinds of groups: Edit groups and Mix groups. 
>If you create new groups in the mixer window you can set the Mix
>groups in the mixer strips.  When active, these mix groups will gang
>faders and mute/solo/rec etc.
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Ah, I got it now.  Though slightly counterintuitive, this is a great 
feature.

>> Here are some features that would be nice:
>> 1 - Mute groups.
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>See above.
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>> 3 - A way to select a region more accurately for export.
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>How do you do it now?  The range selection tool isn't accurate enough
>because there is no way to enter exact numbers?
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I use the selection tool to higlight the area that I want to export.  It 
would be better to be able to select the region by double clicking or 
something.  Maybe I need to know more about the end marker and how that 
works.

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>> 4 - A way to determine the length of a "session."
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>Length in time?  The location of the end marker isn't sufficient? 
>please explain more.
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I was unaware that that was determined by the end marker.  Is there a 
way to link regions?

I saved a template that had 2 tracks, 2 buses (one for Gverb and one for 
a delay), 4 sends, and a few efx in it.  When I tried to make a new 
session using that template my machine crashed.

Great stuff!

Thanks!
Matt

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