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author | Nick Mainsbridge <beatroute@iprimus.com.au> | 2008-02-17 12:20:16 +0000 |
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committer | Nick Mainsbridge <beatroute@iprimus.com.au> | 2008-02-17 12:20:16 +0000 |
commit | c905d80ce4712faa66f2b11f3faea3b0fc112898 (patch) | |
tree | 48f4a40c02ca887f507444bdb0c1d59618733ebf /manual/xml | |
parent | 126d74e971d1d9651bcf74c91ddd98bf7891fb8f (diff) |
Remove beat entry from meter dialog (beats are not allowed in API), clean up some hardware monitoring code, new configuration vars: ADAT Monitor Mode (documented) and Rubberbanding Snaps to Grid (self explanitory I hope, defaults to off), add some monitoring documentation.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/ardour2/branches/2.0-ongoing@3076 d708f5d6-7413-0410-9779-e7cbd77b26cf
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-rw-r--r-- | manual/xml/editing_concepts.xml | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml | 82 |
2 files changed, 81 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/manual/xml/editing_concepts.xml b/manual/xml/editing_concepts.xml index c73bb00c2a..b76f829a38 100644 --- a/manual/xml/editing_concepts.xml +++ b/manual/xml/editing_concepts.xml @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ "Edit cursor", for example). </para> + <para> + Regions are a somewhat special case in that they may contain <emphasis> + sync points</emphasis>. If a region contains a sync point, the region start + position is ignored and the sync point is aligned to the grid. This allows + you to align a 'hit point' to the desitred grid. + </para> + <variablelist> <title> Possible Snap Settings </title> <varlistentry> diff --git a/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml b/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml index 88b94bd816..aac7cd2818 100644 --- a/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml +++ b/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml @@ -38,32 +38,86 @@ <section id="setup-monitoring"> <title>Monitoring</title> - <para></para> + <para> + While monitoring is a broad term, here we use it to refer to the + signal a track delivers to its channel for further processing. + There are two available monitoring states. + These are + 'input' (the signal being delivered to a track for potential recording), and + 'off-disk' (material you have already recorded, or silence in the absence of a region). + </para> </section> <section id="setup-hardware-monitoring"> <title>Hardware Monitoring</title> - <para></para> + <para> + Some multichannel audio interfaces have the ability to route an input signal + directly to an output with very low or no latency. This is useful if your computer hardware + is connected to the tape sends and returns of a mixing console. + Whenever monitoring is set to input on a track, the track's input port is connected to its + output in hardware (as would happen on a multitrack tape recorder). + Hardware monitoring provides the best quality assurance for an engineer, as the signal path + is exactly the same for input and off-disk monitoring. + Level differences can be heard immediately, as can other gremlins that may ruin your recording. + The hardware monitoring setting is only useful for interfaces supporting this feature. + </para> </section> - + <section id="setup-software-monitoring"> <title>Software Monitoring</title> - <para></para> + <para> + Software monitoring uses software to perform input monitoring. + When set to monitor input, a tracks input signal is passed to its channel + as if it were coming from disk, allowing plugins to be heard while recording. + This introduces an inevitable processing delay, or latency, to the input signal. + The size of the delay depends on the current JACK configuration, which should + be set to as short as possible while recording. + </para> </section> - + <section id="setup-latency"> <title>Latency</title> <para></para> </section> - + <section id="setup-external-monitoring"> <title>External Monitoring</title> - <para></para> + <para> + External Monitoring will silence the output of a track whenever the track is set + to monitor input. It is useful if you are listening to the input signal + using a path outside your computer (eg a mixing console). + </para> + </section> + + <section id="setup-external-monitoring"> + <title>ADAT Monitor Mode</title> + <para> + Nearly all traditional tape recorders use the same monitoring model. + Normally only tracks that are record-enabled will monitor input with the + transport stopped. + ADAT machines switch all tracks to input on stop when auto-input is enabled, + regardless of record-enable state.. + ADAT monitor mode emulates this behaviour. + Be warned that many tracks sharing the same input (in software monitoring mode) + will sum that input through the master buss (potentially including several plugins) + whenever the transport is stopped. Since setting up a sound + usually involves listening to the input with the transport stopped, you might not be + hearing the sound you are about to record! + Using this mode can also lead to surprising acoustic feedback. + ADAT Monitor Mode is on by default. + </para> </section> <section id="setup-auto-input"> <title>Auto-Input</title> - <para></para> + <para> + When a track is record-enabled, it is set to monitor input + regardless of the transport state. Auto input switches to off-disk monitoring + when play is engaged. When Ardour is actually recording, the track will be set to + monitor input again. + Auto-Input is useful for performing punch-ins. Disable auto-input when performing + 'dry runs' of an overdub to allow a performer to hear themselves while the transport is rolling. + </para> </section> <section id="setup-track-naming"> @@ -206,6 +260,18 @@ <section id="setup-punch-recording"> <title>Punch Recording</title> + <para> + Once you have recorded material onto a track, the simplest way to punch in + (or drop in as it is known elsewhere) is to roll the transport and press the + master record button at the desired in point. Assuming the desired track is + record enabled, its monitoring state will be switched and recording will begin. + Pressing it again disengages record. + If repeatable punch-ins are required, you may use auto punch. + </para> + </section> + + <section id="setup-auto-punch"> + <title>Auto Punch</title> <para></para> </section> |