Things are progressing well- thanks to everyone who’s posted replies and helped me along; it’s greatly appreciated.
I’ve gotten a good take of a session (one vocal track, two guitar tracks) and mixed them with the DSP reverb, compressor, and EQ into a decent mix. When I export the file to a WAV file, however, prior to conversion to flac, mp3, and ogg/vorbis, I noticed that the export is flat- no effects or EQ at all. I am missing…what?
kvk, Ardour will integrate your effects in the mix if these effects are running inside Ardour. That is, if they are ladspa or lv2 plugins.
In the case of the linuxDSP effects, they are placed in a jack loop, so you have to first record their output into Ardour. Then mixdown.
Hope this makes sense.
Actually, that should not be the case at all. Ardour’s export system is specifically designed to include the use of other JACK clients as part of the processing system. It seems very slightly more likely that the linuxDSP FX might not handle JACK’s freewheeling mode properly, which is what we use to drive the export process. I wish I had a more solid answer for you.
@Paul, I’ve just tested the export feature using several of my plugins as inserts, and it handles freewheel and export fine on my test system.
@kvk if you have the linuxDSP effects routed between ardours main outputs and the feeds to the soundcard then they will not be included in the mixdown, can you give some more info about how you have things routed. Perhaps there is an alternative configuration that means you won’t have to bounce the output from ardour down to another track.
@linuxdsp: ah, your perspective makes a lot more sense. thanks for mentioning that and clarifying the freewheeling status (not that its really likely that it would be a problem). sorry for casting any aspersions on your FX units!
Thanks- I did get it to work, but I’m not sure what I might have done differently. I opened the track in Ardour, made sure all the inserts were operational and active, did some new mixing, and then exported into a WAV file. But I did NOT open it in Audacity- I simply burned it to a test CD to assess the mix and other levels, and the effects and EQ were present on both the CD and the WAV file when played using VLC.
Of course, now I have to fix all the problems with the mix itself! O frabjous day!