<figure class="right">
- <img src="/images/connection-manager.png" alt="An example patchbay">
+ <img width="50%" src="/images/connection-manager.png" alt="An example patchbay">
<figcaption>
An example patchbay
</figcaption>
<tr><th>Hardware</th>
<td>These are ports which are connected to a physical piece of hardware
(a sound card or MIDI interface).</td></tr>
- <tr><th>Ardour Busses</th>
- <td>All ports belonging to busses.</td></tr>
- <tr><th>Ardour Tracks</th>
- <td>All ports belonging to tracks.</td></tr>
<tr><th>Ardour Misc</th>
<td>These are other ports that do not fit into the previous two
categories; for example, the ports on which the metronome click
is output, and MIDI ports for things like control surfaces and
timecode.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>I/O Pre</th>
+ <td>All ports of I/O Pre-Process Plugins.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>I/O Post</th>
+ <td>All ports of I/O Post-Process Plugins.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>Tracks</th>
+ <td>All ports belonging to tracks.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>Busses</th>
+ <td>All ports belonging to busses.</td></tr>
<tr><th>Other</th>
<td>
- If there are other JACK clients running, their ports will be found
+ If the Jack backend is being used and if there are other JACK clients
+ running, their ports will be found
here. If there are no such ports, the tab will not exist (on one or
both axes of the grid).</td></tr>
</table>
<h2>Variants on the Patchbay</h2>
<p>
Slightly different versions of the patchbay are available from different
- places in Ardour. A global view of all JACK audio connections is available, in
- <kbd class="menu">Window > Audio Connections</kbd>, or by pressing
+ places in Ardour. A global view of all audio connections is available, in
+ <kbd class="menu">Window > Audio Connections</kbd>, or by pressing
<kbd class="mod2">P</kbd>. A corresponding MIDI Connection Manager can
be opened using <kbd class="mod23">P</kbd>.</p>
<p>
<td>Disconnects everything from the given port.</td></tr>
<tr><th><kbd class="menu">Rescan</kbd></th>
<td>
- Ardour will try to keep abreast of any changes to the JACK ports on
+ If Ardour is using the JACK backend, Ardour will try to keep abreast
+ of any changes to the JACK ports on
the system, and reflect them in any connection managers which are open.
If for some reason this fails, this can be used to re-scan the list of ports and
update the manager.