[Ardour-Users] a few thoughts

Adriano Petrosillo ampetrosillo at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 06:26:29 PST 2012


That's exactly what I was pointing to.

2012/12/5 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings at stackingdwarves.net>

> 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.
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>
> 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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