[Ardour-Users] the mysterious case of the missing waveforms . . . . . . . .

[Christopher Bailey]

That worked!

Thanks,
C Bailey



On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Raphaël Doursenaud <rdoursenaud at free.fr>wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> The waveforms are stored in the "peaks" directory in the ardour session
> directory. You can have these regenerated by wiping out this directory's
> content and reopening the session. That should fix your problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher Bailey a écrit :
> > OK, I seem to have overcome my routing problems for the moment.  I've
> > got sound!  Woohoo.
> >
> > I'm now trying to nail down the problem of the missing waveforms.  The
> > sounds all play fine, but the waveforms don't show in the region blocks.
> >
> > I've tried monkeying around with the XML files.  I made a brand new mix,
> > and everything's fine.  Then I went back into my old mix and (in a text
> > editor) compared the 2.  I found a few differences, so I tried making
> > modifications to the old one to make it look like the new one.  Still
> > missing waveforms prevail.
> >
> > I'm wondering . . . .  where is the waveform data stored?  It's just
> > generated when the session is opened right?  Is there any settings
> > hidden in the XML that control or determine  whether it can be
> > displayed?  I think I've seen all the obvious ones, and they seem to be
> > set correctly.
> >
> > Anyway, I posted a sample file here:
> > http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/harvest/04_tryit.ardour<http://works.music.columbia.edu/%7Echris/harvest/04_tryit.ardour>
> > <http://works.music.columbia.edu/%7Echris/harvest/04_tryit.ardour>
> > in case glancing at it helps.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > CB
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Christopher Bailey
> > <zipzappoozoo at gmail.com <mailto:zipzappoozoo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     One other thing I should mention -- these ardour mixes were
> >     originally created outside of ardour by an application I wrote (in
> >     other words, I create XML files myself).  However, I had gone in and
> >     worked with them, modified them and saved them in my old version of
> >     ardour on my old laptop (and they always worked fine in my old
> >     version of ardour).
> >
> >     But I wonder if there's some random difference in format with the
> >     new version?
> >
> >
> >
> >         >         the native version is perfectly able to display
> waveforms.
> >         >         where did
> >         >         these regions come from? did you record them? from
> which
> >         >         device?
> >         >
> >         > I loaded in an Ardour session that I Was using with my old
> laptop
> >         > (the session is on an outboard hard drive that wasn't involved
> >         when
> >         > that old machine crashed).
> >
> >         > What's strange is that when I play the mix, I can see the
> meters
> >         > leaping about---it's seeing sound in there, but not showing
> >         it, and I
> >         > hear no sound (but hopefully y'all's advice will help with
> that).
> >
> >         that seems pretty odd, for sure.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ardour-Users mailing list
> > ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
> > http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-users-ardour.org
>
> - --
> Raphaël Doursenaud
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFI2LjuaZKmNAdXaVURAkSoAJ44HzS8S29HRvqjQE5kUQczvhrx4ACgkN8u
> tp1t1nBzk1POpiPII8bR5/w=
> =p+D3
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ardour.org/pipermail/ardour-users-ardour.org/attachments/20080923/141ee912/attachment-0002.htm>