Am 22.08.2010 18:49, schrieb Rolf Krüger: > Am 22.08.2010 18:14, schrieb lrspares45: > >> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 16:28 +0200, Rolf Krüger wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> What I like most about this setup is, that you can route all your >>> instruments (yes, every single Drumsound from Hydrogen) through >>> Busses(!!!!! not Tracks!!!!!) in Ardour and use the effects and mixer >>> section of Ardour for the complete mix. >>> >>> >>> HTH >>> Rolf >>> >>> >> Hi Rolf, >> could you expand on that please? I think it's what I want to do - is >> there a tutorial anywhere? >> >> > No, AFAIK there´s no tutorial on this. But it´s very easy. First start > Jack (with GUI), Ardour and then Hydrogen. Now have a look at the > options dialog of Hydrogen. There´s an option "ceate per instruments > outputs", make sure this is checked. Then have a look at Jack´s > connection window, there you should now see all instruments of Hydrogen. > Disconnect Hydrogens "out L and out R from the system outputs (otherwise > you will find strange effects later on). Now, say you want something > easy, like just Kick, Snare and HiHat signals "flowing" through Ardour: > Add three Busses (not Tracks!!!) in Ardour and name them e.g. "KickBus", > "SnareBus", "HiHatBus". Now edit the inputs for each bus and assign the > appropriate Hydrogen outputs. Make sure the busses outputs are routed to > Ardours master outs. That´s it. Now you can easily add effects like > Gate, Compressor EQ, etc. to each drum sound separately and you will be > able to edit everything in Ardour´s mixer panel, pretty cool, eh? > Depending on the drum sounds it might not be necessary to use stereo > busses. I always worked with mono busses and received pretty good > results so far. > > Another thing one could do is to do use Tracks instead of busses and > really record the drum sounds to single tracks in ardour. From that > moment on you could close down Hydrogen. I first worked like this too, > but it´s a hassle, if you find later in the mix, that you must have to > change some of the drums stuff. As long as your machine (and sound > server) has enough performance headroom, I would not recommend this. > > I also do this with midi-files in Muse. For each instrument I open a > Qsynth instance, load my soundfonts, connect the Qsynth instances from > Muse, and again, route the synth outs to Ardour busses. In Muse it´s a > little tricky to have it sync with Jack, but a little trial& error > should end up with a working solution. > > In order to have all apps synchronized correctly, make sure that you > have enabled Jack as the TimeBase and Ardour as the TimeMaster (see my > last post for details). > > If you are diving into the nitty gritty of Ardour I highly recommend the > so called "Floss Manual" (http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/), this is > the source where I learned all I wanted to know about ardour (This is > also the #1 resource if you do not know how to assign in-/outputs in > Ardour). > > > Ah wait! Here´s something which caused me a lot of trouble in the > beginning: The Jack connection dialog wouldn´t refresh properly after > adding new instruments, tracks, busses, .... Someone posted a patch for > this a few months ago on this list. There was also a fix, that lets you > minimize the sub-windows of Jack´s GUI (which is very helpful). I don´t > know, if the Jack Version that you use, has this problems too. > > > > HTH > Have Phun! > Rolf > > Tx Rolf , this is worth to be admitted into a wiki best regards gerhard
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