[Ardour-Users] a few thoughts

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

On 12/05/2012 12:32 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Adriano Petrosillo
> <ampetrosillo at gmail.com <mailto:ampetrosillo at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     User-defined channel strips, as in "you decide what to put in it",
>     meaning there is NO DIFFERENCE to normal Ardour operation, you still
>     load plugins the normal way, you still get to choose which plugins
>     to use, you still have your say on EVERYTHING, you just have the
>     OPTION (which you may want to use or not) to have some parameters
>     ready on a channel strip on the mixer, just like a "custom" version
>     of Mixbus, with your favourite plugins
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> to repeat: done.
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>     and a layout YOU choose to make.
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> not done. and vastly more work than the first part.

well, it took me some time to see it (because i found some of the OP's 
remarks a bit offensive) but i think here adriano is pointing into a 
very interesting direction:

auto-swallowing a gui into a channel strip is next-to-impossible, like 
paul explains. but adriano talks about customizable: the user gets to 
decide the layout and what's to be included in the strip, i.e. s/he has 
to do all the hard work, not the software. good solution from a 
programmer's POV, and from a user experience POV :)

ardour3's direct parameter access comes very close already. now add an 
option to swallow meter bars (gain reduction and onset of limiting in 
particular are factors i always like to keep an eye on), and we're 
almost there. then, in ardour 3.2, add mouse-turnable knobs in a 
dual-column layout for the few remaining masochists out there, and 
that's it. some coloring options maybe to group related widgets.
then, if we bundle a basic 4-band eq and one simple compressor, we can 
present new users with a default template that looks like an ssl 9000. 
instant wow, and as soon as you have tackled the first entrance barrier, 
you switch it off and adapt it to taste.





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