tape mode?
pyrael: a lot of people find no use for it, but I think it’s exceptionally useful in some cases.
For example, if you are arranging a piece of music using many MIDI hardware boxes and then adding overdubs etc, tape mode is exactly what you need. It means you can just enable record on all your “synth tracks”, and hit play in, say, rosegarden after an edit to the MIDI file, and your whole synth arrangement is re-recorded into ardour, without having to then go through the bother of deleting all the old files etc.
It is also a very useful feature when “bouncing” i.e feeding 10 or 12 tracks down to 2. When you want to actually change something in the mix, you will edit the original 1 of 12 tracks, but then to save CPU/hard drive you need to bounce. You can plumb it into a tape track so that when you re-bounce, your original bounce is overwritten.
I don’t think there is anything else I use it for…
Back in the day when I used VST 3.7, I recall having tape tracks which acted as virtual tracks for external devices like the fostex D80. (8 channel hdd recorder.) The tape track would correspond with a physical track on the recorder when synchronized with the transport MMC of Cubase. If I armed a track or pressed record on Cubase, the external machine would record at those points on the corresponding tracks. That is quite useful, because I could record 8 tracks into the computer (EWS88MT) and 8 tracks to the D80 giving me 16 channels live recording at once. That made punching in and out quite easy because i could see virtually where i was in the time line.
Anyway. My two cents.
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