+
Use Group on will tell ardour that any control on a strip that is part
of a group will affect all strips within that group. Default is off
or the control should only affect the strip the control is applied to.
The /use_group f state command can be used to temporarily
change this on the fly.
+
+ Some handy numbers to use might be: 15 (all tracks and busses - + 1 + 2 + 4 + 8), 31 + (add VCAs to that - 15 + 16). Master or Monitor strips are generally + not useful on a surface that has dedicated controls for these strips + as there are /master* and /monitor* commands already. However, on a + surface with just a bank of fader strips, adding master or monitor + would allow access to them within the banks. Selected would be useful + for working on a group or a set of user selected strips. Hidden shows + strips the GUI has hidden. As such, a control surface will likely have + a number of buttons with different strip_types for convenience. +
- Some handy numbers to use might be: 15 (all tracks and busses), 31 - (add VCAs to that). Master or Monitor strips are generally not useful - on a surface that has dedicated controls for these strips as there are - /master* and /monitor* commands already. However, on a surface with - just a bank of fader strips, adding master or monitor would allow - access to them within the banks. Selected would be useful for working - on a group or a set of user selected strips. Hidden shows strips the - GUI has hidden. + Ardour allows any of it's strips to be hidden so that they do not show + up on the GUI mixer or editor. OSC follows the GUI by default and will + not show hidden strips. As of Ardour 6.0 the OSC commands include + /select/hide y/n for the selected + strip and /strip/hide ssid y/n + for any strip. This allows the control surface to hide or unhide a strip. + What may not be obvious is that hiding a strip makes it disappear and + become unselected. So if a selected strip is hidden, it is no longer + selected and the select channel will show the default select strip + (Master). In order to show a hidden strip, the hidden strips need to + be shown first using the /set_surface/strip_types 512 + command to show only hidden strips. Then use the + /strip/hide SSID 0 or + /select/hide 0 + to show that strip. Of course, because only hidden strips are showing, + the strip you have set to no long hide will seem to vanish. A + /set_surface/strip_types 159 will then show + the default strip types or replace the 159 with the desired strip_types.
-- Audio Aux? say what? I am sure most people will have noticed that they - can find no Aux strips in the Ardour mixer. There are none. - There are busses that can be used a number of ways. From analog days, - in OSC, a bus is something that gets used as a sub mix before ending up - going to Master. An auxiliary bus is used like a separate mixer and - it's output goes outside the program or computer to be used as: - a monitor mix, a back up recording, or what have you. In OSC where - controller strips may be limited, it may be useful not to use up a - strip for an aux that is not really a part of the mix. It is also - useful to get a list of only aux busses if the control surface is a - phone used to provide talent monitor mix control on stage. Each - performer would be able to mix their own monitor. The user is free - to enable both busses and auxes if they would prefer. +
+ When hiding more than one strip in a row, check the strip name before
+ hiding as the strips will move as each strip is hidden just as it does
+ with the GUI mixer. So to hide strips 5, 6 and 7, the hide button
+ for ssid 5 is pressed 3 times. A more intuitive method
+ would be to hide strips from right to left (7, 6 and 5) which will
+ work as expected.
+
+ In short, shown strips can only be hidden when they are viewable and + hidden strip can only shown (or un-hid) when strip_types include hidden + strips.
- -Feedback is an integer made up of bits. The easy way to deal with this is to think of feedback items being worth a number and then adding all those numbers together for a value to send. @@ -147,7 +195,7 @@
- So using a value of 19 would turn on feedback for strip and master - controls, but leave meters, timecode and bar/beat feedback off. + So using a value of 19 (1 + 2 + 16) would turn on feedback for strip + and master controls, but leave meters, timecode and bar/beat feedback off.