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<glossary>
  <title>Ardour Glossary</title>
  <glossdiv>
    <title>A</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-alsa">
      <glossterm><acronym>ALSA</acronym></glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Acronym of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. ALSA provides
          audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system.
        </para>
        <para>
          <ulink url="http://www.alsa-project.org"/>
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-audio-track">
      <glossterm>Audio Track</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-auditioner">
      <glossterm>Auditioner</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>B</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-bus">
      <glossterm>Bus</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-bus-track">
      <glossterm>Bus Track</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>C</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-crossfade">
      <glossterm>Crossfade</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>D</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-daw">
      <glossterm><acronym>DAW</acronym></glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Abbreviation of Digital Audio Workstation. Some reasonable
          definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-destructive-recording">
      <glossterm>Destructive Recording</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-dsp">
      <glossterm><acronym>DSP</acronym></glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Acronym of Digital Signal Processing, a very general term for processing
	  of any digital signal by digital means.  In &ARDOUR_NAME;'s context, it generally
	  refers to the processing peformed on audio signals by &ARDOUR_NAME; and by plugins.
	  It is often talked of in terms of DSP `load', referring to the amount of CPU power
	  that Ardour is using for its signal processing.  This load increases with the
	  number of tracks and plugins that a session uses.  A computer will have an upper
	  limit to the amount of DSP it can perform, depending on its CPU and RAM speed and
	  many other factors.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>E</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-embed">
      <glossterm>Embed</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>H</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-hdr">
      <glossterm><acronym>HDR</acronym></glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Acronym of Hard Disk Recorder.  A general term for devices which record
	  audio onto hard disk; a HDR usually means some kind of standalone recording
	  unit such as the Alesis HD-24 and similar.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>I</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-insert">
      <glossterm>Insert</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>J</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-jack">
      <glossterm><acronym>JACK</acronym></glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Acronym of the Jack Audio Connection Kit. Some reasonable
          definition here.
        </para>
        <para>
          <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org"/>
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>L</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-ladpsa">
      <glossterm><acronym>LADSPA</acronym> </glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Acronym of Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API.  One standard
	  for writing plugins which &ARDOUR_NAME; can use.  Many LADSPA plugins
	  are available; some free and open-source and others closed-source.  See, for example:
	  <ulink url="http://plugin.org.uk/"/>
	  <ulink url="http://calf.sourceforge.net/"/>
        </para>
        <para>
          <ulink url="http://ladspa.org"/>
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>M</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-midi">
      <glossterm><acronym>MIDI</acronym> </glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Acronym of Musical Instrument Digital Interface.  A standard for communicating note
	  and other information between keyboards, computers, sound modules and many other devices.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>P</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-playlist">
      <glossterm>Playlist</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
	  A list of <glossterm linkend="gt-region">regions</glossterm>; each
	  <glossterm id="gt-track">track</glossterm> has one or more Playlists, one of which
	  is active; this specifies the regions that will be played back by the track.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-plugin">
      <glossterm>plugin</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
	  A piece of software that can be used inside Ardour to process audio
	  or MIDI data.  Common examples are equalisers, compressors or reverb
	  processors using the <glossterm linkend="gt-ladspa">LADSPA</glossterm>,
	  <glossterm linkend="gt-lv2">LV2</glossterm> or <glossterm linkend="gt-vst">VST</glossterm>
	  standards.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-posix">
      <glossterm><acronym>POSIX</acronym></glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface for uniX.
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>R</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-region">
      <glossterm>Region</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-redirect">
      <glossterm>Redirect</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>S</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-send">
      <glossterm>Send</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-session">
      <glossterm>Session</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-session-template">
      <glossterm>Session Template</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
        <glossseealso otherterm="gt-session"/>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-submixing">
      <glossterm>Submixing</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>T</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-tape-track">
      <glossterm>Tape Track</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some Reasonable definition here.
        </para>
        <glossseealso otherterm="gt-track"/>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>

    <glossentry id="gt-track">
      <glossterm>Track</glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Some reasonable definition here.
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>

  <glossdiv>
    <title>V</title>
    <glossentry id="gt-vst">
      <glossterm><acronym>VST</acronym></glossterm>
      <glossdef>
        <para>
          Short for Virtual Studio Technology
        </para>
      </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glossdiv>
</glossary>