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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
- All ports belonging to busses. Ardour Tracks
- All 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.
+ I/O Pre
+ All ports of I/O Pre-Process Plugins.
+ I/O Post
+ All ports of I/O Post-Process Plugins.
+ Tracks
+ All ports belonging to tracks. Busses
+ All ports belonging to busses.
@@ -63,15 +68,15 @@
made between Foo (a MIDI output) and our busses (which are all audio-input).
Other
- 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).
- The green dots in the example show that both Foo and Bar are connected + The green dots in the example show that both Fred and Jim are connected to the master bus, left to left and right to right.
Slightly different versions of the patchbay are available from different - places in Ardour. A global view of all JACK audio connections is available, in - Window > Audio Connections, or by pressing + places in Ardour. A global view of all audio connections is available, in + Window > Audio Connections, or by pressing P. A corresponding MIDI Connection Manager can be opened using P.
@@ -88,7 +93,7 @@ opens a context menu which provides a few handy options:
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 clicked source, if this is possible. In this way, for example, tracks and busses can be extended to have @@ -103,7 +108,8 @@ | Disconnects everything from the given port. |
Rescan | - 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. |