OK, this is very helpful.  I understand this, though I didn't have a chance to
get through the manual yet.  Now, it seems to me that the layered "takes" (even
though they aren't new takes when I am just making new fades) should move along
with the top layer by default.  Does that make sense?

Matt

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>Message: 6
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:40:13 -0500
>From: Brett McCoy idragosani@chapelperilous.net>
>Subject: Re: [ardour-users] Fade creates new file and leaves the old
>	one?
>To: ardour-users@lists.ardour.org
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>Matthew Polashek wrote:
>> I end up with 10 files sitting in my track, as I tweak a fade, then when I move
>> the soundbyte forward or back, I have to go and delete all the previous versions.
>> Maybe I need to spend some time with the manual or something.
>
>I think you are confusing regions in the playlist with files (they 
>aren't the same, you can have many regions that actualyl come from a 
>single file). Each time you record something on a track, it becomes a 
>region, and each subsequent one gets placed over top the previous, so 
>you have layered 'takes' (if you have ever used the Gimp or Photoshop 
>and used the layers tool, it is kinda like that). Only the topmost 
>region is 'active' when you audition the track. When two regions 
>overlap, a crossfade is automatically created between the two.
>
>More info here:
>
>http://www.ardour.org/manual/editing:crossfades
>
>> 
>> Matthew Polashek
>> matt@tinysongs.com
>> www.tinysongs.com
>> 
>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:25 , Paul Davis paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> sent:
>> 
>> 
>>>On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:05 +0000, Matthew Polashek wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi!
>>>>
>>>>When I make a fade Ardour seems to create a new audio file and leave the old one
>>>>beneath it.  I'm sure there's a simple setting or something I have to change to
>>>>make this stop but I haven't figured it out yet.  Can anyone help me
>> 
>> understand this?
>> 
>>>it creates a new object called a Crossfade, which reads and mixes data
>> 
>>>from the two regions involved in the fade. no new files are created.
>> 
>>>why do you want to stop it? 
>>>how do you imagine crossfades working differently?
>>>
>>>--p
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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