[Ardour-Users] Cleaning up unused regions

[Thomas Vecchione]

Tape mode is really not appropriate for this, it may seem like it at
first until you start trying to edit those regions.

There is no way to automatically do what you are thinking about right
now.  I have discussed various ways to accomplish allowing live
reocrdings to take up far less room with several people and as of
right now my plan is to eventually implement the ability to record to
FLAC, it causes a performance hit, but in initial testing it seemed
acceptable.  However the amount of space taken up by silence is
practically nothing, to the point there wasn't any benefit to doing a
fancier method that only actually wrote material in those sections.

Now will it work with larger track count live sessions?  I won't know
until I try and I haven't even coded in support for it yet so don't
hold your breath.

          Seablade

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:19 AM, roaming.book at googlemail.com
<roaming.book at googlemail.com> wrote:
> When recording a live performance I have all the tracks in record for the
> length of the piece. Each instrument and effect has it's own track. When an
> instrument only plays for a short time this leaves a lot of unused silence
> in the audio files. Deleting this unused space would save me considerable
> amount of disk space and make backups to DVD easier.
> i want the regions left exactly where they are, where they were played, to
> they remain in sync with the rest of the material.
> Brett suggested "tape mode" so I'm going to look that up in the manual and
> test it it .
> Thanks again for replies,
> Jeremy
>
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> On 5 Oct 2011, at 12:08, Nando wrote:
>
> Could it be that the work you're doing is better addressed by a wave editor
> like Audacity? Does your recording need to be in sync with other tracks?
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Brett McCoy <idragosani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:30 AM, roaming.book at googlemail.com
>> <roaming.book at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for swift replies. Session/Cleanup only cleans up entire audio
>> > files that are unused.
>> >
>> > I would like delete just the unused audio.
>> >
>> > Thanks for an suggestions or tips
>>
>> I don't think there is anything in Ardour that deletes portions of
>> audio files that aren't used.
>>
>> --
>> Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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