</p>
<p>
- Ardour uses the <dfn>JACK Audio Connection Kit</dfn> for all audio and MIDI
- I/O, which means that recording audio/MIDI from other applications is
- fundamentally identical to recording audio/MIDI from audio/MIDI hardware.
+ Ardour can use the <dfn>JACK Audio Connection Kit</dfn> for all audio and MIDI
+ I/O, making recording audio/MIDI from other applications fundamentally identical
+ to recording audio/MIDI from audio/MIDI hardware.
</p>
-<p class=fixme>Sanity check: is this true anymore? Does Ardour's ALSA backend make this statment not exactly true?</p>
-
<h2>Stage 3: Editing and Arranging</h2>
<p>
<p>
Many <dfn>transformations</dfn> can be done to the contents of regions, again
- without altering anything on disk. It is possible to alter, move, and delete
- MIDI notes, and remove silence from audio regions, for example.
+ without altering anything on disk. It is possible to alter, move, delete and
+ remove silence from audio regions, for example.
</p>
-<p class=fixme>Sanity check: deleting MIDI notes doesn't change them on disk? Isn't anything done to MIDI a destructive operation?</p>
+<p>
+ MIDI regions can also be copied, moved, shortened, or deleted without altering
+ the MIDI files, though any edit like adding, suppressing or moving <em>notes</em>
+ inside a region results in a modification of the underlying MIDI file.
+</p>
<h2>Stage 4: Mixing and Adding Effects</h2>
<p>
- Once the arrangement of the session mostly complete, the next step is the
+ Once the arrangement of the session is mostly complete, the next step is the
<dfn>mixing</dfn> phase. Mixing is a broad term to cover the way the audio
signals that the session generates during playback are processed and added
together into a final result that is actually heard. It can involve altering