Loop Record with Punch-in-out

[MichaelSchramm]

I’m looking for the following feature: I want to make a recording on my own, but I don’t want to constantly run back and forth between the director and the recording room. That’s why I want to define a loop area in Ardor that’s slightly larger than the punch-in area. Of course, with a new loop run, the recording in a new layer should appear in the corresponding track. Is that possible? Or are there other ways to control Ardor remotely via your mobile phone, for example?

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

@MichaelSchramm

Is that possible?

Loop Recording and Punch-In/Out recording are exclusive, pick one.

One option is to just do loop recording and later splice it (in layered display mode, range select > split).

[seablade]

@MichaelSchramm

Or are there other ways to control Ardor remotely via your mobile phone, for example?

TouchOSC or TouchDAW comes to mind.

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[paul (Paul Davis)]

There’s also a not very well document web interface that you can use from any browser.

Edit > Preferences > Control Surfaces > WebSockets Server (experimental)

[SpotlightKid]

@MichaelSchramm

Or are there other ways to control Ardor remotely via your mobile phone, for example?

ardour_recording_control

GitHub - jean-emmanuel/ardour-control: OSC Surface for Ardour

[peter.zenk]

Great new solutions that I did not know about. Thanks for sharing, will try them out eventually.

For a much simpler approach I tried with a Web browser (Firefox) on a Android phone some time ago.
I do not know if this still works. But is relatively simple.

Details are in the last posting of the following thread:

Websockets and web_surfaces [ANSWERED]

I managed to enable the experimental web socket server in Edit -> Preferences -> Control Surfaces I pointed my firefox to /opt/Ardour-6.5.0/share/web_surfaces/index.html and voila, got it! Now, unfortunately it is beyond my current capabilities to publish this to an external Tablet, Smart Phone etc. Any pointers to documentation how to address this appreciated. Thank you in advance! P.S.: It is probably way beyond my capabilities to add more transport capabilities like rewind …

[peter.zenk]

Would like to add that personally I prefer loop recording, making the loop range bigger than the stuff I want to record so I have some setup time per run.
Then I just record as many times as I want, select the best track and scrap the rest.
Works fine for me.

[SpotlightKid]

Now, unfortunately it is beyond my current capabilities to publish this to an external Tablet, Smart Phone etc. Any pointers to documentation how to address this appreciated.

After you enable the Websockets Server in the preferences, look in the Log window (Window->Log), there it will say

ArdourWebsockets: listening on: http://myhost:3818/

Open that URL in a browser on any computer (smartphone, tablet, …) in the same network (myhost will be the name of the host Ardour runs on instead).