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<section id="sn-what-is-different-about-ardour">
- <title>What's Different about Ardour</title>
- If you are someone who has used other audio software, particularly software
- generally referred to as a Digital Audio Workstation (or "DAW"), then there
- will be a number of things about Ardour that may puzzle you on your initial
- and early encounters with the program.
- </para>
+ <title>What's Different about Ardour</title>
+ <para>
+ If you are someone who has used other audio software, particularly
+ software generally referred to as a Digital Audio Workstation (or
+ "DAW"), then there will be a number of things about Ardour that may
+ puzzle you on your initial and early encounters with the program.
+ </para>
- <section id="no-default-session">
- <title>No default session</title>
- You must explicitly create a
- <glossterm linkend="gt-session">Session</glossterm> before you can do
- anything else, and if you choose not to use one of the provided
- <glossterm linkend="gt-session-template">session templates</glossterm> ,
- you will also have to create
- <glossterm linkend="gt-track">tracks</glossterm> and
- <glossterm linkend="gt-bus">busses</glossterm> in order to record and/or
- edit existing audio material.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <section id="no-default-session">
+ <title>No default session</title>
+ <para>
+ You must explicitly create a
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-session">Session</glossterm> before you can do
+ anything else, and if you choose not to use one of the provided
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-session-template">session templates</glossterm>
+ , you will also have to create
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-track">tracks</glossterm> and
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-bus">busses</glossterm> in order to record
+ and/or edit existing audio material.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <section id="where-do-plugins-and-sends-go">
- <title>Where do plugins and sends go?</title>
- Ardour doesn't have any fixed number of "slots" for
- <glossterm linkend="gt-plugin">plugins</glossterm>, or
- <glossterm linkend="gt-send">sends</glossterm>, or
- <glossterm linkend="gt-insert">inserts</glossterm> : you can have as many
- per-track as your system has the horsepower handle. The two black boxes
- above and below the mixer strip's gain fader are
- <glossterm linkend="gt-redirect">redirect</glossterm> lists where you can
- add, reorder, remove and generally control plugins, sends, and inserts,
- both pre- and post-fader.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <section id="where-do-plugins-and-sends-go">
+ <title>Where do plugins and sends go?</title>
+ <para>
+ Ardour doesn't have any fixed number of "slots" for
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-plugin">plugins</glossterm>, or
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-send">sends</glossterm>, or
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-insert">inserts</glossterm> : you can have as
+ many per-track as your system has the horsepower handle. The two black
+ boxes above and below the mixer strip's gain fader are
+ <glossterm linkend="gt-redirect">redirect</glossterm> lists where you
+ can add, reorder, remove and generally control plugins, sends, and
+ inserts, both pre- and post-fader.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <section id="no-builtin-eq">
- <title>No builtin EQ</title>
- <para>
- Most people don't think much of the EQ's built into other DAWs. Moreover,
- you cannot meaningfully do equalization with 3 knobs marked "Lo", "Mid" and
- "Hi". Since good-quality EQ plugins are available for no-cost on Linux,
- Ardour prefers to allow you to choose one which you prefer. Of course, you
- can save your session configurations as templates, so if you have a
- particular EQ that you prefer, you only need do this once.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <section id="no-builtin-eq">
+ <title>No builtin EQ</title>
+ <para>
+ Most people don't think much of the EQ's built into other DAWs.
+ Moreover, you cannot meaningfully do equalization with 3 knobs marked
+ "Lo", "Mid" and "Hi". Since good-quality EQ plugins are available for
+ no-cost on Linux, Ardour prefers to allow you to choose one which you
+ prefer. Of course, you can save your session configurations as
+ templates, so if you have a particular EQ that you prefer, you only
+ need do this once.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <section id="no-visible-send-controls">
- <title>No visible send controls</title>
- Although Ardour supports sends, there is no way to control them directly
- from the mixer interface - you don't get a dedicated knob on the mixer
- strip. However, if you bring up the send's own editor (for example, by
- double-clicking on its name in the redirect list), you will find a richer
- set of functionality than most other DAWs offer for controlling the
- behaviour of a send.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <section id="no-visible-send-controls">
+ <title>No visible send controls</title>
+ <para>
+ Although Ardour supports sends, there is no way to control them
+ directly from the mixer interface - you don't get a dedicated knob on
+ the mixer strip. However, if you bring up the send's own editor (for
+ example, by double-clicking on its name in the redirect list), you
+ will find a richer set of functionality than most other DAWs offer for
+ controlling the behaviour of a send.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <section id="a-smaller-set-of-tools">
- <title>A smaller set of tools</title>
- <para>
- Most DAWs have evolved towards providing the so-called "smart tool" which
- allows you to use the mouse for several different kinds of operations
- without changing to a different tool. Ardour has taken this approach from
- the beginning, so that the "Object" tool actually allows you to carry out
- many different operations depending on how and where the mouse is used.
- Ardour does not provide a destructive "pencil" tool as some other DAWs do,
- for some fairly deep technical reasons. Needing to use a "pencil" tool for
- waveform repair nearly always indicates a problem with the setup of your
- session and/or recording hardware. The different tools that ardour does
- offer include the "Object" tool which has many different uses including
- region trimming/moving/copying, automation editing, and more; a "Range"
- tool for defining ranges of time; a "TimeFX" tool for timestretching; a
- "Gain" tool used exclusively for editing region gain envelopes; and a
- "Zoom" tool to manipulate temporal zoom. Many other operations are
- accessible via context menus or <link linkend="sn-key-bindings">keyboard
- bindings</link>
+ <section id="a-smaller-set-of-tools">
+ <title>A smaller set of tools</title>
+ <para>
+ Most DAWs have evolved towards providing the so-called "smart tool"
+ which allows you to use the mouse for several different kinds of
+ operations without changing to a different tool. Ardour has taken this
+ approach from the beginning, so that the "Object" tool actually allows
+ you to carry out many different operations depending on how and where
+ the mouse is used. Ardour does not provide a destructive "pencil" tool
+ as some other DAWs do, for some fairly deep technical reasons. Needing
+ to use a "pencil" tool for waveform repair nearly always indicates a
+ problem with the setup of your session and/or recording hardware. The
+ different tools that ardour does offer include the "Object" tool which
+ has many different uses including region trimming/moving/copying,
+ automation editing, and more; a "Range" tool for defining ranges of
+ time; a "TimeFX" tool for timestretching; a "Gain" tool used
+ exclusively for editing region gain envelopes; and a "Zoom" tool to
+ manipulate temporal zoom. Many other operations are accessible via
+ context menus or <link linkend="sn-key-bindings">keyboard
+ bindings</link>
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- </para>
- </section>
+ .
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <section id="no-restrictions-on-track-io-configuration">
- <title>No restrictions on track I/O configuration</title>
- <para>
- Tracks and busses in ardour do not come in pre-determined configurations.
- You can create a mono track, and convert it to a stereo track at any time.
- You can convert it to a track with 3 inputs and 7 outputs if you want,
- because Ardour also doesn't restrict track I/O configurations to a fixed
- set of mono/stereo/5.1/7.1 etc. In addition, because of Ardour's use of
- <link linkend="sn-configuring-jack">JACK</link> , a track with one input
- can actually receive data from many different locations. You can also
- connect any track to any number of other tracks and busses. In Ardour, the
- only difference between a track and a bus is that a track plays back
- pre-recorded material from your disk drives and can record to them. Both
- tracks and busses can have plugins, sends, inserts, automation data and
- more.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <section id="no-restrictions-on-track-io-configuration">
+ <title>No restrictions on track I/O configuration</title>
+ <para>
+ Tracks and busses in ardour do not come in pre-determined
+ configurations. You can create a mono track, and convert it to a
+ stereo track at any time. You can convert it to a track with 3 inputs
+ and 7 outputs if you want, because Ardour also doesn't restrict track
+ I/O configurations to a fixed set of mono/stereo/5.1/7.1 etc. In
+ addition, because of Ardour's use of
+ <link linkend="sn-configuring-jack">JACK</link> , a track with one
+ input can actually receive data from many different locations. You can
+ also connect any track to any number of other tracks and busses. In
+ Ardour, the only difference between a track and a bus is that a track
+ plays back pre-recorded material from your disk drives and can record
+ to them. Both tracks and busses can have plugins, sends, inserts,
+ automation data and more.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <section id="your-audio-hardware-is-not-the-only-io-option">
- <title>Your audio hardware is not the only I/O option</title>
- <para>
- Because Ardour uses <glossterm linkend="gt-jack">JACK</glossterm> , your
- session isn't limited to receiving and sending audio to and from your audio
- interface. It can freely send and receive audio signals to any other JACK
- application, in some cases even JACK applications running on other
- computers. On the one hand, this makes understanding the I/O options for a
- track or bus a little more complex than in a conventional program, but it
- also adds incredible power to Ardour, as you will see later.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <section id="your-audio-hardware-is-not-the-only-io-option">
+ <title>Your audio hardware is not the only I/O option</title>
+ <para>
+ Because Ardour uses <glossterm linkend="gt-jack">JACK</glossterm> ,
+ your session isn't limited to receiving and sending audio to and from
+ your audio interface. It can freely send and receive audio signals to
+ any other JACK application, in some cases even JACK applications
+ running on other computers. On the one hand, this makes understanding
+ the I/O options for a track or bus a little more complex than in a
+ conventional program, but it also adds incredible power to Ardour, as
+ you will see later.
+ </para>
+ </section>
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