- Ardour represents audio waveforms with peak files, that are graphical images generated from the sound files. This generation can be time and CPU consuming, so it uses a cache of the generated images to speed up the display process. To watch for files modification, Ardour relies on the file-modification time. If an external file is embedded in the session and that file changes, but the system-clock is skewed or it is stored on an external USB disk (VFAT), Ardour can't know the change happend, and will still use its deprecated peak files.
+ Ardour represents audio waveforms with peak files, that are graphical images
+ generated from the sound files. This generation can be time and CPU consuming,
+ so it uses a cache of the generated images to speed up the display process. To
+ watch for files modification, Ardour relies on the file-modification time. If an
+ external file is embedded in the session and that file changes, but the
+ system-clock is skewed or it is stored on an external USB disk (VFAT), Ardour
+ can't know the change happened, and will still use its deprecated peak files.