I’m using automation for the first time, and I noticed that my project keeps being marked as modified (star before name in title bar) while I make no changes to it, just by playing it.
It appears this happens every time a parameter (specifically, echo on/off) is changed by the automation.
I didn’t report in Mantis, partly out of sloppiness, partly because this may not be considered a valid issue and I figured I’d post here for feedback before.
This may have been identified and fixed already, but my search in Mantis didn’t bring up anything relevant.
Ardour, by design, does not distinguish what causes a parameter change. Automation, GUI, control surface, remote-control, etc are all equal. Furthermore plugins may report a state-change when their inputs change, which marks the session as modified.
Also note that parameter value of an automated control does change when the playhead is located, and the session file include the current parameter when the session is saved.
…but well. ones person’s feature is another person’s bug
Yeah I figured that would be the explanation. I see this more as a side effect than a feature, because as a user I don’t think my project has actually changed. But I totally understand it may be impossible to track by design and it is not that much of an issue.
