[Ardour-Users] External mixer

[Lamar Owen]

On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Geoff Beasley wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 January 2010 08:58:12 Lamar Owen wrote:
>> export
>> will be different,
>>
> you can't export from within Ardour what is not in the digital  
> domain ;)

Sure you can.

You might have to play through the entire session with the inputs  
coming back from the mixer record enabled and recording, then export  
selected tracks with those selected.

As I've said, I've not tried it, but since track outputs can go to  
arbitrary JACK connections, then I would assume that could mean an  
external device; inserts can be used for external effects, for  
instance.  It might be that JACK handles whether it gets real time or  
non real time export; I've not tried it or looked at the code, but it  
makes sense, and I recall reading about it a while back (but I can't  
locate where I read that right off).

In any case, browsing through the code, I find a comment in  
session_export.cc that implies that JACK, through the freewheeling  
driver, is what handles the whole non real time business; thus, I  
would think JACK would make things go real time if there are  
connections to actual devices in the connected matrix, other than the  
output, which is freewheeled.  Haven't read through enough to know  
more, but Paul or another developer would.