- In Ardour terminology, a processor is anything which treats the
- signal in some way and gets plugged into a mixer strip.
- Ardour provides several builtin processors such as the fader or panners.
- Processors can also be plugins used for effects or as instruments, as well
- as sends or inserts which are affect signal
- routing.
- The arrangement of processors is arbitrary, and there is no limit to how
- many there can be.
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- The main box in the top half of a mixer strip shows the processor - box. - Processors are shown as coloured rectangles, with a small "LED" beside - them that lights up when the processor is enabled. The colour of the - processor depends on its location in the sequence; processors that are pre-fader are - coloured in red, and post-fader processors are coloured green - (in the default theme).
-- The processor box will always contain a blue Fader processor. - This indicates where in the processor chain the main channel fader is - located — this is the fader shown in the lower half of the strip. -
-- Processors can be added to the chain by - Right-clicking in the processor list, This does three things: -
-- From the menu, new processors can be inserted. -
- -- Processors can be re-ordered using drag-and-drop. Dragging a processor - allows it to be moved around within the chain, or copied to another - processor list on another track or bus. -
- -- To the left of the name of each processor is a small LED symbol; if this - is lit-up, the processor is active. Clicking on it will deactivate the - processor and effectively bypass it.
- -- Context-click on the processor you want to remove, and select Delete, or Right-click on it. -
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