On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 09:17 +0100, David Haggett wrote: > On Sunday 26 March 2006 21:44, Brian Dunn wrote: > > David Haggett wrote: > > > >Is it possible to export an entire effects chain for re-use in another > > > ardour session? > > > > I'm not sure about doing this in ardour, but i've done it with jack rack. > > jack-rack will save your while fx chain and all the perameters in a file. > > you could then use the qjackctl connection bay to route your instrument > > into jack rack and then jack rack into ardour, for recording. > > Thanks for the answer, Brian. Unfortunately, having tried this I found > Jack-Rack to be a bit resource hungry and I got a few XRUNs even before I > started recording. I tried both using jack-rack as the track input and as an > insert, and the result was about the same. > It should be impossible for Jack-Rack to cause xruns - this would be the fault of the plugins you have loaded. Did you load any that are described as non-RT safe? What kernel are you using? > And, of course there is the fact that some of the sounds I've made have > plugins both before and after the fader, which would mean 2 copies of > jackrack.