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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> I recently upgraded to
a new laptop and switched from Ubuntu to Mint - *my config is in
my sig at the bottom of this post<br>
<br>
after my upgrade I bought the linuxDSP plugin bundle since they
were being offered at a special price<br>
<br>
all the LV2 plugs opened in Ardour2 with the old barebones generic
UI's but it was suggested that I try them in Ardour3 to see the UI
in its full glory<br>
<br>
so I became a monthly subscriber then downloaded/installed Ardour3
3.5.380-dbg<br>
<br>
not having been keeping up with all the work being done in Ardour3
over the past couple of years many of the new features came as a
surprise to me<br>
<br>
e.g., no more auto-crossfading of regions in a track - this was a
very handy feature which I realize can be replicated with more
mouse-clicks and maneuvering but still...<br>
<br>
and the fact that MIDI now needs a a2jmidid bridge to get my
controllers to speak to Ardour (thanks to Robin G. for helping
me!!)...I see where Jack is going and I welcome this - I look
forward to the day when Jack becomes the CoreAudio/MIDI of Linux
Audio<br>
<br>
but the export window in Ardour 3 gave me more trouble and helped
me decide to stick with Ardour2 until things get fixed<br>
<br>
here's what happened:<br>
<br>
- I imported a 23 minute piece of stereo audio (44/24 wav) into
Ardour 3 that I generated from Pure Data so I could trim, edit and
make fade-in/outs<br>
- when I clicked on export I fumbled through a hella-confusing
export panel which kept duplicating tabs as I tried to create a
new one<br>
- the expected behavior was that I could simply add a new tab then
edit it so I could modify that tab to export a file to a format
and resolution I typically work in -- but this seems to be an
inaccurate assumption on my part...?<br>
- after becoming frustrated with how it behaved I deleted all the
tabs in the export panel and successfully made one that would
export 44/24 .wav <br>
- I clicked on the export button<br>
- then a dialog window/log came up with an error (couldn't copy
and paste this IIRC) but it looked as though it had rendered out a
file in the tabbed panel underneath the error/log window but I
can't remember if this was the case<br>
- Ardour3 froze<br>
- and would allow me to close the error/log window<br>
- and I couldn't quit Ardour3<br>
- I also couldn't close the export panel<br>
- so I did a force quit using htop on the command line<br>
- and rebooted the machine for hygienic purposes <br>
- I discovered that I lost the directory containing my new Ardour3
session (even though I saved it after I created the new session)
as well as the presumably exported 44/24 wav file - which i'm
guessing wasn't actually exported at all because of the freezing
export panel and app<br>
- thank goodness I still had the original export from Pure Data<br>
- so I opened Ardour2 and quickly replicated all my edits and
exported it without any trouble<br>
~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~<br>
so my questions are:<br>
- after some Googling I found some old reports about this export
bug but thought it had been squashed - is this not the case?<br>
- can some illuminate me as to how the export panel is supposed to
work? or point me to a RTFM link?<br>
- I've heard some grumbling about it not being very clear or
intuitive and I have to agree<br>
- is the region crossfade coming back? - this allowed me to
quickly audition edits and was a indispensable feature for sound
design when using Ardour as an audio EDITOR and not a multitrack
DAW<br>
<br>
anyway, I hope Ardour 3 continues to improve while retaining some
of what made Ardour2 great but I'm not sure I'm ready to bump up
to A3 for mission critical work especially since I use it for
diffusing my work in live performance<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
kim<br>
<br>
*<br>
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<b>my Linux audio perf config:</b><br>
Lenovo Thinkpad T500<br>
Mint 14 (MATE && Xfce) i686 - 32 bit<br>
kernel 3.5.0-48-generic<br>
filesystem: ext3<br>
jackdmp 1.9.9<br>
Ardour2 2.8.14-1<br>
Ardour3 3.5.380-dbg<br>
Pd version 0.43.4-extended<br>
Presonus Firebox audio interface<br>
Korg nanoKontrols x3<br>
cpufreq-set - both cpu's are set to 2.27GHz<br>
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