X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Fpatchbay.html;h=7e881c41574bdd1b47da0ec4cae459047ffe6178;hb=c74044cf7983302a714cdf60c61d1276728303cb;hp=4f764000291b7dc3581173f6d542c9b5a97d4e58;hpb=7a4c28bd8605e90876ebee619de364ab7001e405;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/patchbay.html b/include/patchbay.html index 4f76400..7e881c4 100644 --- a/include/patchbay.html +++ b/include/patchbay.html @@ -22,28 +22,28 @@ Both sources and destinations are divided up into groups, with each group being given a tab:

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Hardware
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Hardware These are ports which are connected to a physical piece of hardware - (a sound card or MIDI interface). -
Ardour Busses
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All ports belonging to busses.
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Ardour Tracks
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All ports belonging to tracks.
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Ardour Misc
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Ardour BussesAll ports belonging to busses.
Ardour TracksAll ports belonging to tracks.
Ardour Misc 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. - -
Other
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Other If you have 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). - + both axes of the grid).

The main part of the patchbay is a matrix grid. Within this grid, green dots represent connections, and you can click in any of the @@ -87,29 +87,29 @@ Context-clicking on a port name in the connection manager opens a menu which provides a few handy options:

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Add audio port and Add MIDI port
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Add audio port and Add MIDI port These options add audio or MIDI ports to the thing that you opened the menu over, if this is possible. In this way, for example, tracks and busses can be extended to have more inputs or outputs. - -
Remove
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Remove Removes the given port, if possible. Right-clicking a port will do the same. - -
Disconnect all from…
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Disconnects everything from the given port.
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Rescan
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Disconnect all from…Disconnects everything from the given port.
Rescan Ardour will try to keep abreast of any changes to the JACK ports on your system, and reflect them in any connection managers which are open. If for some reason this fails, use this to re-scan the list of ports and update the manager. - -
Show individual ports
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Show individual ports If you have a session which has lots of multi-channel tracks or busses, it may be an unnecessary detail that you have to connect left to left and right to right every time you make a connection. This obviously gets worse @@ -120,15 +120,15 @@ to the corresponding channel of the destination (left to left, right to right and so on). In this mode, a half-circle in the connection grid indicates that some (but not all) of the source's ports are connected to the destination. - -
Flip
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Flip This will flip the visible ports on the vertical axis with those on the horizontal. If, for example, the top of the connection manager is showing Ardour Busses and the right is showing Hardware, flip will swap the view to the opposite. You can also flip by pressing f. Note that if there are no matching tabs on both axes, flipping will be impossible. - - +