You seem to be the sort of musician who mostly uses MIDI sequencers, keyboards and synthesisers to make music Ardour 2 is not a complete solution for you (but Ardour 3 might be).įor me, Ardour 2 is also not a complete solution either, but is complemented by 8 channels of audio I/O hardware, microphone preamplifiers, microphones and musical instruments. They happen to use MIDI cables and signals, but they aren’t musical instruments, or if they have a keyboard on them (which some do) that part doesn’t send any useful information to Ardour. The control surface is not a music keyboard it has faders and switches so the commands sent over MIDI are things like “move channel 3 fader to position x” or “mute channel 14”, not “play this note”, enabling you to use traditional controls instead of the mouse to do that job. These have the same controls as a mixing desk, and are connected to Ardour which does that processing. I think you are getting confused because Ardour can connect to MIDI control surfaces. In old fashioned studio terms, it replaces the mixing desk and the multitrack tape machine, but it doesn’t replace the instruments on the other side of the control room window. It’s for recording and mixing music or sound made by musical instruments, which may or may not be electronic. What do the MIDI controller surfaces do, with Ardour? Do I need to climb and take the MIDI controller keyboard out of my other room and carry it over here, before I can know whether the potential ever existed, to do what I wanted to do?Īrdour is not a MIDI sequencer and does not (intentionally) generate sounds at all. One possible answer which I could try to guess at, could be, ‘When you send your MIDI controller’s note sequence to the MIDI remote control channel of an Ardour wave track, Ardour will pitch-bend the sound of the sample on that track, so that playing middle C will preserve the original pitch of the sound.’īut this type of an answer would be sheer guesswork on my part, I don’t answer people with guesses, and it’s exactly this sort of answer which IT managers hate, and which would need to go on your Web site. We have a goal in mind, before we start thinking about how to connect our boxes.įor example, one question which people commonly have would be, ‘I have a MIDI controller keyboard, which my computer recognizes. Given that Ardour 2 has no sequencing capability, nor MIDI tracks, nor loops, what then is the purpose of connecting a MIDI controller to a multitracker? And if there is a purpose, this purpose needs to be explained on the Web site somewhere. What does it do?”Īnd I’ve honestly had to tell them “I have no idea!” I’ve had musicians ask me, “Dirk, you have Ardour. The fact that it has no sequencer prevents it from being a DAW. According to what the Web site describes, Ardour is just a multitracker. The Web site declares that it’s a DAW, but a DAW needs to have some functions which Ardour doesn’t have (according to the same Web site). I don’t mean for this to be short in any way, but even though I have Ardour 2 compiled and installed, I still don’t know what it does. We need to define what our programs do, so that other people than our managers will know whether they need the software or not. But to the contrary, I feel that this is one aspect of Ardour, which could be corrected. It’s possible that businesspeople have badgered programmers for too long, never to define what a program does in the programmer’ terms.
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