[Ardour-Users] Export hangs after script executing

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:05:20 +0100, JoergSorge wrote:
>> For what purpose do you need "multiple devices", if you export? Until
>> now I didn't use Ardour's export feature, but I already use export
>> features. I export single tracks or the mixed sum of all recorded
>> tracks, to get the master. For my understanding it doesn't matter, if
>> you use the all in one approach or if you're using all kinds of
>> external gear, if you want to export something, it anyway already is
>> recoded.  
>
>O, sorry, I mean not devices but multiple audio software.

I don't know if jack allows to include external software, when
exporting, at least for hardware connected by jack this can't work,
since e.g. the delay time of an external hardware reverb is fixed and
doesn't fit to "faster than realtime". However, even if Ardour + jack +
external software allows an export, why not simply recording it, before
exporting? There would be no loss as we know it from the analog domain,
the possible issue within the digital domain are dithering, borked
lightpipe cables, bad sync etc., so simply try to record everything,
perhaps you do not experience an issue.