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x42 / xfade.lv2

stereo DJ X-fade plugin
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Feature request: Hook into Ardour faders to record cross fading #1

Open Michael-Z-Freeman opened 10 years ago

Michael-Z-Freeman commented 10 years ago

This would allow full recording of studio DJ mixes by laying down, in Ardour, the actual cross fade between which ever tracks are selected on either side of the LV2 mixer (A/B). Cross fades could then be adjusted later in Ardour when cleaning up the mix and so on. I'm not sure if this would involved the actual Ardour faders or the cross fading function of Ardour.

x42 commented 10 years ago

I'm not quite sure what you mean with 'hook into' ?

Ardour already exposes all plugin settings. You can already automate the x-fade, and even get a fader in the track-header for it. I don't quite understand what else is needed.

As for using track-faders, that's out of the question. They're Ardour internal, a plugin has no access to them.

Michael-Z-Freeman commented 10 years ago

OK, hi. I'm not fully conversant with Ardour yet so may have missed what I am thinking of. I'll get back to you.

danielhjames commented 10 years ago

Hi Barney, you can manually record the position of the up-faders in Ardour using 'write' mode, see the chapter:

http://carlh.net/ardour/manual/html/ch09.html

You would have to decide whether to lay down the original tracks on the Ardour timeline in advance of the mix, or have two separate JACK-capable players (to be triggered manually) which are connected to Ardour channel inputs. Doing it in advance is easier because you can line up beats until they fit perfectly, or make edits, but obviously that is not a genuine live performance :-)