Hints and Tricks

Seeing as you cannot create new layouts on the Android version of Touch OSC, I took it upon myself to create a puredata to patch to convert the OSC commands of the default layouts to things that Ardour will understand. I have used the Mix 16 layout. The first page controls the transport and the master channel, the second and third pages control faders and muting of each individual track. If you have any problems please report back. Make sure you are sending OSC to pd on port 9001.
Only tested with pd-extended on Ubuntu 11.10

http://www.christiegrinham.co.uk/misc/TouchArdour.pd

Just wanted to share this with all of you, was looking for more mastering possibilities and came across this, apparently it's a JAVA app so it should be croos platform, lets give it a test....

http://www.hotto.de/software/audiomasteringsuite.html

So I think I read a post quoting somewhere that MixBus and Ardour were basically the same editor, but maybe a few functions named differently - like the "Smart Mode" in mixbus for instance isn't named that in Ardour, but seems to work the same way. So, trying to pick up some tricks, I watched this video: http://mixcoach.com/mistermiller/. Around the 19 minute mark, they show how to highlight a section of a region, and drag the gain for that section up or down. And you can layer several of these, etc. This is not the automation gain curve, as they point out.

Hi everyone :)

I'm just loving ardour and can't wait for 3 to come out.

Meanwhile I wanted to give back to the community. Ardour2 as far as I know doesn't have support for a default sessions folder and in the forums I saw some people asking for this. This script solves that.

Usage:

# opens up ardour normally
ardour
# opens the session with that name or creates it if it doesn't exist
ardour SessionName

I was playing around with GarageBand just now and noticed something annoying. When I activate/deactivate the mute on a given real instrument track, there is a HUGE lag between clicking the mouse and the audio being output. In other words I click it, and then don't hear it for over a second much of the time. There are only three tracks.

Ardour does way better than this on my machine; OS X, 64 bit dual core, 4Gb RAM. I experience no such lag in Ardour.

I have been trying for some time to use the Behringer BCF 2000 in touch automation mode, and I noticed that some other people did so without success, too. So I digged into the source code and came up with a workaround that allows any of the buttons of the BCF 2000 to be used to start/stop touching (currently limited to gain automation). More details (and the patch, of course :-), are available here:

http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=4199

Behringer provides a mackie LCD emulator called BCFview that can be used to dislay the current track assignments when using the BCF2000 in mackie LC mode.

1. Get the exe here http://www.behringerdownload.de/B-Control_download/BCFview.zip

2, Ensure that you have wine installed and test it with: wine bcfview.exe

3. Right click in bcfview and choose the BCF2000 *INPUT* as the connection.

4. Start an ardour3 session with > 7 tracks. You will need to cycle the bank buttons at least once to get it to sync.

Hi,

I'm sorry I just can't resist. I've stumbled upon a brand new feature of Cubase 6 (release early this year): Group editing. I totally respect Cubase and it's in multiple ways better than Ardour I have to admit. But they really advertise group editing as a new feature ;)

So tell your friends (and try it out yourself if you haven't already) that Ardour does this extremely well for ages now - yes, cut and drag 10 Drum regions only once and not 10 times for the desired result ;)

Benjamin

One of the features of the Mixbus product is a K-meter, based on the concept introduced by Bob Katz.

Out of curiosity, I did some googling to see if I could find a K-meter plugin to use with Ardour, and came up with this:

http://code.mzuther.de/kmeter/

It operates as a standalone Jack-enabled application, or a VST plugin. It's free (ie no cost and GPL 3). Haven't used it, but thought it might be of interest to some users?

Just search for "k-meter bob katz" if you are not familiar with the concept.

Regards, Paul H