</p>
<p>Both ,<em>feedback</em> and <em>strip-types</em> use bitsets to keep
track what they are doing. Any number in a computer is made out of
- bits that are on or off, but we represtent them as normal base 10
+ bits that are on or off, but we represent them as normal base 10
numbers. Any one bit turned on will add a unique value to the
number as a whole. So for each kind of feedback or strip type
to be used, that number should be added to the total.</p>
2 - MidiTracks.
</li>
<li>
- 4 - AudioBusses.
+ 4 - AudioBuses.
</li>
<li>
- 8 - MidiBusses.
+ 8 - MidiBuses.
</li>
<li>
16 - VCAs.
</li>
<li>
- 2048 - Master.
+ 32 - Master.
</li>
<li>
- 4096 - Monitor.
+ 64 - Monitor.
</li>
<li>
- 16384 - Selected.
+ 128 - Audio Aux.
</li>
<li>
- 32768 - Hidden.
+ 256 - Selected.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ 512 - Hidden.
</li>
</ul>
+<p class="note">
+ Selected and Hidden bits are normally not needed as Ardour defaults to
+ showing Selected strips and not showing Hidden strips. The purpose of
+ these two flags is to allow showing only Selected strips or only
+ Hidden strips. Using Hidden with other flags will allow Hidden strips
+ to show inline with other strips.
+</p>
<p>
- Some handy numbers to use might be: 15 (all tracks and busses), 31
+ Some handy numbers to use might be: 15 (all tracks and buses), 31
(add VCAs to that). Master or Monitor strips are generally not useful
on a surface that has dedicated controls for these strips as there are
/master* and /monitor* commands already. However, on a surface with
on a group or a set of user selected strips. Hidden shows strips the
GUI has hidden.
</p>
+<p class-"note">
+ Audio Aux? say what? I am sure most people will have noticed that they
+ can find no <em>Aux</em> strips in the Ardour mixer. There are none.
+ There are buses that can be used a number of ways. From analog days,
+ in OSC a bus is something that gets used as a sub mix before ending up
+ going to Master. An auxiliary bus is used like a separate mixer and
+ it's output goes outside the program or computer to be used as:
+ a monitor mix, a back up recording, or what have you. In OSC where
+ controller strips may be limited, it may be useful not to use up a
+ strip for an aux that is not really a part of the mix. It is also
+ useful to get a list of only aux buses if the control surface is a
+ phone used to provide talent monitor mix control on stage. Each
+ performer would be able to mix their own monitor. The user is free
+ to enable both buses and auxes if they would prefer.
+</p>
<h3>feedback</h3>
<p>Feedback is an integer made up of bits. The easy way to
64 - Send timecode.
</li>
<li>
- 128 - Send meter as dB (-193 to +6) or 1024 depending on gainmode
+ 128 - Send meter as dB (-193 to +6) or 0 to 1 depending on gainmode
</li>
<li>
256 - Send meter a 16 bit value where each bit is a level
will not work if the above option is turned on.
</li>
<li>
- 512 - Send signal present, true if level is higher than -20dB
+ 512 - Send signal present, true if level is higher than -40dB
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ 1024 - Send position in samples
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ 2048 - Send position in time, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ 8192 - Turn on extra select channel feedback beyond what a /strip supports
</li>
</ul>
<p>