On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 14:40, Stanley Jaddoe wrote: > On Saturday 17 July 2004 19:10, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > > IMHO, there is nothing more appropriate for these tasks than the Ardour > > mixer interface. As I state usually in this line of useage, it is a > > massive underuse of Ardour and all of it's other capabilities but I use > > it's mixer interface live for gigs and it is all of the things you want > > plus a LOT more when you have the need. > > IMHO, a harddisk recorder and mixing desk are two seperate functions. I really > hope Mr. Davis agrees and will split the mixing part from the harddisk > recording part. > > The mixing part of Ardour could then be developed as a seperate 'full fledged' > JACK mixing desk. Of course, this seperate mixer can be reused by the > harddisk recording part of Ardour. Kind of pointless IMO. If you don't record....it's NOT a hard disk recorder. And the mixer HAS all the functionality of a conventional mixing console. I don't think Ardour takes up much more in the way of resources if your not recording to HD.