thanks a lot... i'll re-investigate later. yes, i appreciate your philosophy!
cheers! .pltk. On May 15, 2019 1:52:05 PM EDT, "J. Liles" <[email protected]> wrote: >Richard's suggestion is exactly what I myself do when the need arises. >There is no technical reason that I can think of why it shouldn't have >worked for you, assuming the copy was done correctly. One reason >there's >not a built-in function for this is that you may want to do the copying >in >various different ways. You may want to move, hardlink, or softlink >etc. If >we're talking a client with waveform data attached (e.g. a non-timeline >session), the copy could involve many gigabytes of data and take a long >time, run out of free space, etc. Also, I'm just philosophically >opposed to >duplicating OS-level features (such as file management) in myriad >different >applications. > >On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 6:06 AM Peter Lutek <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 6:29:00 P.M. EDT, Richard wrote: >> >> > All I did was to find the equivalent files in my prepared mixer >> > with the strip called "Stereo" and copy them over the ones in >> > ~/NSM Sessions/nsm-test-session/Non-Mixer.nOOYI. >> > >> > Now when I open the modified session in NSM I get my Stero >> > Mixer mixer instead of the empty shell I started with. >> >> thanks for that, richard! >> >> unfortunately, for my project it didn't work completely. non-mixer >didn't >> load all of the strips i had set up, and then it ended up frozen -- i >> couldn't even close it without shutting down the computer. >> >> so, i guess the most secure usage would be to always let NSM start, >save, >> and manage non-mixer sessions -- that ensures non-mixer projects >exist >> within an NSM "ecology" right from the start, so that we can >integrate >> other JACK clients as becomes necessary later. >> >> ...i'd be curious to hear from jon liles about the design methodology >> around these sorts of questions, if he's listening in... :) >> >> cheers! >> .pltk. >> >> >> -- >> peter lutek | improvising musician in toronto >> peterlutek.com >> >> >>
