[Ardour-Users] Cleaning up unused regions

[Brett McCoy]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> It shouldn't, but connecting an output of an app with an input of the
> same app could cause issues. IIRC it has to do with the order of the
> jack clients and zero copy, but I might be completely wrong, anyway, I
> had issues when doing this with Qtractor and I guess I never tried to do
> it with Ardour. Again, hard disk drives are cheap these days, there's no
> need to overdo data reduction.

Bouncing digital audio doesn't degrade quality (not like in the
multitrack days). I "loop" audio out Ardour and back in all of the
time, like when using Jamin for mastering, I send the Master Outs into
Jamin (with Ardour output to system playback removed), and then Jamin
output comes back into a "mastered" track in Ardour (output to Master
track is removed, I monitor audio directly from Jamin). No issues
doing this at all.

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