About Mixer Scenes

Community Ideas for Ardour
#1

Would it be possible for future versions of Ardour to allow Mixer Scenes to save which plugins are being used and whether they are currently active?

It would be incredibly useful to be able to save a “snapshot” of the mix, including the plugins used, and to be able to compare the A/B mix simply by switching scenes.

Right now, it seems that scenes can only be used to compare fader positions and plugin options, but as soon as you activate a new plugin, you can no longer compare between scenes.

#2

Sadly no. Mixer scenes are instantly re-callable, and used live as well. They are limited to only automatable parameters.

Adding/removing (and hard bypassing) plugins is not realtime safe (however almost all modern plugins do have an automatable bypass so you can A/B that to some extent).

For higher-level A/B, session snapshots are the better option.

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