Re: [LAU] qtractor questions

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On 03/22/2010 07:18 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden
> > <mailto:rncbc@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/22/2010 10:07 AM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> > >
> > > Some questions about qtractor:
> > >
> > > * You can't render the midi track to wav? How do you get an
> whole
> > > session into an audio file?
> >
> > midi is meant to be rendered by a sound generator module, a synth, a
> > sampler, a stand-alone or an instrument plugin (dssi, vsti or lv2);
> you
> > can drive external midi outboard equipment as well, which in fact was
> > and still is the primordial goal of a midi sequencer like qtractor.
> >
> > qtractor does not include/integrate any midi sound generator per se,
> so
> > you cannot render midi tracks directly to audio files. but you can
> > record/bound the sound modules output back into qtractor, ardour or
> any
> > other jack enabled hard-disk recorder if you prefer.
> >
> > qtractor exports audio tracks as audio files; similarly it exports
> midi
> > tracks as standard midi files, nothing else ;)
> >
> >
> > >
> > > * Why are there no new audio tracks showing up in Jack when
> > you add
> > > a new audio track, like ardour has? Wouldn't this make it
> more
> > > easy to use it with other apps (for example ardour)?
> >
> > qtractor is not ardour (tm) -- internal signal flow models are not
> the
> > same, not even close ;)
> >
> > re. qtractor, each "input bus" feeds a track on recording; each track
> > feeds an "output bus" for mixdown/merging on playback; it is these
> "bus"
> > devices that are exposed as jack audio ports or alsa-seq ports (midi)
> > from or to the outside world.
> >
> > again, buses in qtractor are not the same as buses in ardour. in
> > qtractor, buses are what you ever see in the jack graph. you never
> see
> > tracks ;)
> >
> > I don't understand it totally. Let assume I have to midi tracks in
> > qtractor and I want to record those to two audio tracks in qtractor. But
> > there is only master_in1 and master_in2.
> >
> > When I add an audio track, I can only choose for master_in. Also for new
> > audio track number two, master_in. How to route output of synth 1 to
> > track1 and synth 2 to track 2?
> >
>
> you create more buses. at least one more in addition to master which is
> indeed stereo (2channels) and created by default ootb. you can setup
> your workspace as with many ins and outs you need and make it a template
> for all your future new blank/scratch sessions.
>
> so, recipe is: create one additional bus, call it master_2 for instance
> and assign it as input for audio track_2; audio track_1 stays on Master
> for input. now you connect synth_1/outs to Master/ins and synth_2/outs
> to master_2/ins. voilá :)
>
> remember now that qtractor session templates may get very handy here,
> for not having to be doing this all the time, as it also includes
> connection recall. alas, it won't start your external synths
> automatically, you'll have to do that manually, business as usual,
> qtractor will wait for them appearing on the radar to reconnect. yep,
> qtractor is not a full-blown session manager, i know. let's leave that
> for someone else ;)
>

Mmh I tried to do what you said, but I get an segmentation fault now, and
can't restart the session (just an test session, nothing important)...

bash: line 1: 6175 Segmentation fault qtractor
/home/user/linuxaudio/qtractor/firsttake.qtr

\r

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