X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Faudiomidi-busses-mixer-strips.html;h=2aaff9880e56a914987be3d8e77e7a465a2128a2;hb=ca8c53473dfbcb7d4b483a5ce792bbf4b5caffe8;hp=e45e521311856f49139c8be557162d6f63ab6be7;hpb=7be4f507991a0b87174a0e78831a4e7e9e96bcbe;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/audiomidi-busses-mixer-strips.html b/include/audiomidi-busses-mixer-strips.html index e45e521..2aaff98 100644 --- a/include/audiomidi-busses-mixer-strips.html +++ b/include/audiomidi-busses-mixer-strips.html @@ -1,28 +1,42 @@ - +
- An Ardour bus can be considered a virtual track, as in a track that doesn't have a playlist (so, no regions). - Its use is to "group" some audio signals to be treated the same way. One simple use case is to group all the audio tracks containing the different drums of a drumkit. Routing all the drums tracks outputs to a bus allows, once the different levels amongst the drums have been set, to adjust the global level of the drumkit in the mix. + An Ardour bus can be considered a virtual track, as in a track that doesn't + have a playlist (so, no regions). Its use is to "group" some audio signals to + be treated the same way. One simple use case is to group all the audio tracks + containing the different drums of a drumkit. Routing all the drums tracks + outputs to a bus allows, once the different levels amongst the drums have been + set, to adjust the global level of the drumkit in the mix.
- Bus usage goes way beyond this simple example though: busses, as tracks, can receive plugins for common audio treatment, and be routed themselves as needed. This makes for a very useful tool that is very commonly used both for musical purposes and computing ones: instead of using e.g. ten discrete delay plugins on ten different tracks, busses are often used as receivers of sends, and only one delay plugin is used on this bus, reducing the processing power needed. + Bus usage goes way beyond this simple example though: busses, as tracks, can + receive plugins for common audio treatment, and be routed themselves as needed. + This makes for a very useful tool that is very commonly used both for musical + purposes and computing ones: instead of using e.g. ten discrete delay plugins on + ten different tracks, busses are often used as receivers of sends, and only one delay plugin is used on this bus, + reducing the processing power needed.
- Ardour supports 2 types of busses: Audio and MIDI. A MIDI bus differs from an audio bus just by: + Ardour supports two types of busses: Audio and MIDI. A MIDI bus differs from an + audio bus just by:
- MIDI busses provide a particularly efficient workflow for virtual drumkits where the arrangement uses different MIDI tracks. - Moreover, busses with both Audio and MIDI inputs are well suited for vocoders and similar plugins, - where a MIDI signal controls an audio one. + MIDI busses provide a particularly efficient workflow for virtual drumkits where + the arrangement uses different MIDI tracks. Moreover, busses with both Audio and + MIDI inputs are well suited for vocoders and similar plugins, where a MIDI + signal controls an audio one.
Adding any audio input to a MIDI bus transforms it into an audio bus. @@ -30,16 +44,17 @@
- Busses look and behave exactly like tracks, so they share nearly all of their controls. - The differences are: + Busses look and behave exactly like tracks, so they share nearly + all of their controls. The differences are:
- Clicking the Aux button makes every track that sends a signal to this bus through Aux sends blink in turquoise. - Right clicking this button brings up a menu: + Clicking the Aux button makes every track that sends a + signal to this bus through Aux sends blink in + turquoise. Right clicking this button brings up a menu:
Assign all tracks (prefader) | Creates an Aux Send in every track, to this bus. The send is placed just before the fader |
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