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- 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.
+ 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 affect signal routing.
- 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 arrangement of processors is arbitrary, and there is no limit to how many there can be. The Processor Box will + automagically add a scrollbar to itself if there are more processors in it than can be shown in the given space. + + ++ The main box in the top half of a mixer strip shows the processor box. Processors are shown as colored rectangles, + with a small LED beside them that lights up when the processor is enabled. The color of the processor depends on its location + in the sequence; processors that are pre-fader are colored in red, and post-fader processors are + colored 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. + 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. It can be enabled and + disabled like any other processor.
+- Processors can be added to the chain by - Right-clicking in the processor list, This does three things: + 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 also be dragged and dropped from the Favorite Plugins window to an + appropriate spot in the Processor Box. +
+ ++ The Favorite Plugins window can be populated via the Plugin Selector, or by dragging + and dropping an existing processor from the processor box to the Favorite Plugins window. +
+- 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. + 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. + Left-clicking on the LED symbol, or Middle-clicking anywhere on the processor + will deactivate the processor and effectively bypass it. Click again to reactivate the processor. +
+ ++ Some processors have their own bypass controls that are independent of the one that Ardour provides; this can make it appear + that the plugin is non-responsive when its independent bypass control is active. +
+ +- 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.
- + A processor in the processor box can be selected with a Left-click on it; it will be + highlighted in red. Other processors can be selected at the same time by Left-clicking on them while + holding down the key, and ranges can be selected by Left-clicking on them + while holding down the key. + +- Context-click on the processor you want to remove, and select Delete, or Right-click on it. + Context-click on the processor to be removed, and select Delete; or + Right-click on it; or Left-click on it and press the + Delete key. If multiple processors are selected, they will all be deleted at the same time.
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