A few questions I thought I would place in one post.
Is it possible to disable the zoom feature in the overview bar at the bottom of the Ardour edit screen when attempting to move right to left? Accidentally moving the mouse up and down zooms in and out. It’s kind of driving me nuts. Can this feature be disabled?
Back in December I had just finished making a color theme named Autumn and it worked fine from at least Ardour 5 to 8.12 but when 9 was released there were some changes made to the themeing element and my theme no longer works the way it did. In my notes I had mentioned that one of the developers had shared a document with me that showed/described these changes to Ardour 9’s theme element but I can’t locate this “document”. Does anyone know the actual differences between Ardour 9 and previous versions so I can make this Autumn theme compatible with Ardour 9?
With an X-Touch as my control surface (Mackie protocol) using the FF/Rew buttons scrubs (plays the audio and is slow moving) rather than just moving the playhead. Is there any way to disable this scrubbing feature? I would really like it to just move smoothly back and forth with the Rew/FF buttons. This was not specific to Ardour 9, I think all version did this as well.
When Ardour is playing and is in Follow Playhead mode, is there anyway to have this auto disable if you manually scroll out of the playhead view or does this have to be disabled manually? I find myself (likely because of Cubase I think) scrolling ahead a bit to check or see an up and coming part of the music and as soon as I let go of the mouse button, it will bring me back to where the playhead is playing from.
By “moving the mouse up and down” you mean using the scroll-wheel whilst hovering over the Summary view? … This view is literally intended as a “‘bird’s eye’ view” and as a navigator, so I doubt there’s a way to disable that… → But it’s okay, as I suggest just hiding it for most of the time. There’s really no reason to always have it showing. A quick enabling/disabling using Shift-S will help keep your timeline clean(er) and more open. (TIP: Shift-S, Shift-L, and (perhaps) Shift-E are good ones to know, if you don’t know about them already.)
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Who’d you get this ‘document’ from? Robin (x42)? Paul? Someone else? Whoever it was, you’d best ask them for that same info again.
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Don’t know, sorry…
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This might be possible to achieve via an “Editor Hook/Callback” Lua script, but I’m also not sure. If you don’t know anything about Lua in Ardour though, then it’s best not to waste your time trying to solve it that way.
1.It’s not possible currently to tie dragging to only vertical or horizontal movement in the summary.
2.You might be referring to the commit hisory for the default theme
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4. Ctrl+F (by default, or Cmd+F on mac I suppose) allows you to quickly toggle Follow Playhead, there’s no option to disable automatically it when manually scrolling (I haven’t tried with Lua).
Hey thank you for the reply. No actually I don’t mean the scroll wheel. I mean when the left button is held down to move your position in the project…if you were to move the mouse forward/back it will zoom into and out of the project. I use the CTRL+Click and the SHIFT+Click for zooming in/out and horizontal scroll. So the way it works now means it changes my zoom level despite my intention to only to go to a particular location within the project…hmmm SHIFT+S might be my new friend…thanks! I haven’t yet go to that part of the manual so thank you for clue me on the features.
lol I have no idea what this “document” was that I was referring to. Someone (I don’t think it was Robin or Paul) had mentioned that there was some new, color option that was changed in version 9 that didn’t exist in the previous versions…but I have no idea what the details are. I’ll have to go and check the “commit history” as Jean-Emmuanuel suggests (thanks Jean)
Yeah the X-Touch Rew/FF buttons scrub method of working is not going to work for me. I’m not sure how Cubase managed this because it was using the Mackie control method of daw control as well. I have to find a way to change this. The scrubbing method is not useful at all. If I wanted scrubbing when using Rew/FF I would just use the Jog wheel in scrub mode. Ok thanks you guys.
Ok Yes I was aware of the CTRL+F. I think I may just program this to my X-Keys strip near the transport on the X-Touch to make this a super quick feature when playing/stopping, etc. Just thought I would ask on this…
Thanks Jean, Ok well I disabled it completly for now. Honestly, due to the computer related issues I’ve been having with SSDs, side jobs, life getting in the way I haven’t dove back into the manual for Ardour. I’m sure by now I would have discovered some of this stuff. Thank you again
How is it that Cubase on Windows uses the same MCP for daw control ( and I think the Windows version of Ardour) also had the same behavior as Cubase but when I use the FF/REW buttons transport control on the X-Touch they just quickly move the play head and on the Linux version of Ardour these same buttons scrub and are slow to move? Honestly I can’t use the FF/REW buttons with the scrub feature.
I guess my question is, if the MCP protocol is the same on Windows, MAC and Linux how is the behavior different on the Linux version of Ardour than I remember it being on Windows…or is this a DAW configuration rather than a MCP thing?
(TIP: Shift-S, Shift-L, and (perhaps) Shift-E are good ones to know, if you don’t know about them already.)