Actually it does address in a less than ideal way one real world issue, it allows for easy browsing of samples and import without losing access to the playback controls (Which you would if you left the dialog on the right hand side) or the file list (If the dialog was overlapping on the left). This can be beneficial when searching through tons of files in multiple directories, for example if I am doing SFX for a film or animation, my library of sounds is somewhere around 40,000 files.
Now it is a less than ideal way because there still wouldnât be a good solution for searching based on file metadata (ie. many of my SFX use text descriptions in the B-EXT chunk IIRC) or filename very easily, though to be honest I am not sure those would be difficult to add, if I ever had free time I might look at it myself. It also doesnât allow for arbitrary categorization needed for loops/musical samples/etc. to be truly effective which is what software like Logic does. That would probably be more difficult to do well.
Donât get me wrong, I would love to and that is one of the tasks I am likely capable of completing, but time is in INCREDIBLY short supply for me these days sadly. 3 Jobs (One of which is me owning a business) and trying to get my house on the market to sell mean I have no free time, and what I did have goes to fixing up the house.
And breaking bones or otherwise injuring myself repeatedly on the way isnât helping eitherâŚ
I like the idea of using file-sample browser on the right side of the bar. The tab system can be used for fast track-plugins editing, something like ladspa style without gui
If I may, Iâm a former FL Studio user, and I missed this feature a lot switching to Qtractor, then Ardour. But now Iâm not so sure I need it, Iâd rather find an external tool that searches, filters and sort samples, in very very large folders. Anyone knows? Yet Iâm using Rythmbox but itâs not made for this. A Jack App would be great.
Yes, you can. But note that the default operation is to âlinkâ (reference the external file). If you have a central sample-library thatâs usually what you want, but if the original file is [re]moved, the session will have missing audio.
You can hold Ctrl when dropping the file to copy it (the drag-drop icon changes) â or set Preferences > General > Session > Always copy imported files.
I am actually curious if that is still true these days. I remember working in a time it definitely was, but with how cheap storage is these days I tend to focus more highly on portability than on storage saving myself these days. Not sure what the norm would be honestly, it may be that it is shifting.
I dwiddle with quod-libet and drop items from its playlist straight into ardour. I get the benefit of trying to do things in more than 1 way with different workflows⌠Sononym is quite impressive, I will need to try that out sometime, kudos to merlyn for mentioning that
Is this the error that youâre talking about? Cause Iâve got it too.
Maybe milk (package maintainer) will be able to help us (heâs active user of LinuxMusicians forum).
Or maybe someone here can give us some hint how to fix this?
fontmap.c:44:18: error: field âparent_instanceâ has incomplete type
44 | PangoFcFontMap parent_instance;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
fontmap.c:62:23: error: field âparent_classâ has incomplete type
62 | PangoFcFontMapClass parent_class;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
fontmap.c: In function âpango_gl_font_map_class_initâ:
fontmap.c:222:42: warning: implicit declaration of function âPANGO_FC_FONT_MAP_CLASSâ; did you mean âPANGO_IS_FONT_MAP_CLASSâ? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
222 | PangoFcFontMapClass *fcfontmap_class = PANGO_FC_FONT_MAP_CLASS (class);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| PANGO_IS_FONT_MAP_CLASS
fontmap.c:222:42: warning: initialization of âPangoFcFontMapClass *â {aka âstruct _PangoFcFontMapClass *â} from âintâ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
fontmap.c:225:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type âPangoFcFontMapClassâ {aka âstruct _PangoFcFontMapClassâ}
225 | fcfontmap_class->default_substitute = pango_gl_font_map_default_substitute;
yes - there is browser, with preview⌠even slicing up sample in the browser preview panel is possible (extract part of wav file directly on track)
about Ardour/Mixbus import dialogue:
itâs already great - the thing i would like to see is:
waveform preview like shown in reaper screenshot (ability to select part of waveform and drag to track)
the point is that this is already present in the âcueâ page, it would be great if that could be transferred to editor page as well (exactly the same concept like in cue page) + waveform visible. (merging functionality from import dialogue + cue page midi & audio browser would be even better - but always open like âeditor list tabâ)
