Audio Regions Disappearing from Edit Window

#21

Aha! See, something two days of messing around didn’t clue me into but is super simple! I’ll recall my sessions to see what shows up when I press the “P.” Thank you. I definitely need to sit down and read/watch some tutorials. RTFM, as they say.

That’s understandable, regarding track folders. I hope that gets figured out in a way that makes sense for the software.

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#22

Just a wild guess: what do you mean with “region file view”?

Could that be the right pane in the editor, where you have the list of the regions? When you copy a region, or you just move it to another track, its name will get an increasing number at the end. This is not the file you recorded (that would be the “source”, also in the right pane), it is a “link” to the source file on the timeline. Check in the session folder (sessionname/interchange/sessionname/audiofiles/) if the actual .wav files you recorded are there.

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#23

You’re absolutely correct. I realized that Pro Tools does the same thing. Everything in their region list will show the complete tracks plus newly named cuts and edits, so not everything that’s on the main timeline will correspond to the files in that list. It makes total sense that the count would keep going.

#24

@paul I looked through my sessions, and it does appear that everything recorded to playlists still exists, so that wound up being a total user error. I had the track heights just small enough to hide the P icon, so knowing that those exist on the tracks now is beneficial for the future when I need to switch between them. I also learned about the “Discard Last Take” button in the Rec window when I was perusing the manual, which will come in handy in the future when I want to keep things tidy. That manual is very well written, by the way. I’ll be going through that more extensively so I can become as much of an expert user as I can.

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#25

While I can’t promise 24/7 individualized support, please understand that the experiences of new users who actually mostly get what they are doing is vitally important to us, so please do keep us in the loop as/if you encounter issues. The fastest way is the Help > Chat option from inside the application (though best hours for that are about 07:00 - 22:00 US Mountain Time (UST-7).

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#26

To add to that, bear in mind that:

  • the Chat option is not a typical 1 to 1 Web chatbot - it’s an IRC/Matrix chat room where some Ardour users and devs hang out
  • as it’s IRC, if you ask a question, you need to hang around to get an answer. If you close the browser/tab, you leave the chat channel and any subsequent reply anyone gives will, effectively, be lost
  • as I said, it’s a chat room rather than a chatbot. This means answers will depend on when people are online and taking notice of the chatroom. People operate in different timezones, so questions may take time to be addressed

But, even if you don’t have specific questions, feel free to join the chat room and hang out with some other users.

Cheers,

Keith

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#27

Thank you both! I’ll be sure to utilize that option in the future.

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