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href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/arranging-tracks/>Arranging tracks</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/setting-up-the-meter/ title="Setting up the meter" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/setting-up-the-meter/>Setting up the meter</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/using-ranges/ title="Using ranges" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/using-ranges/>Using ranges</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/working-with-regions/ title="Working with regions" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/working-with-regions/>Working with regions</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/further-region-operations/ title="Further region operations" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/further-region-operations/>Further region operations</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/changing-edit-modes/ title="Changing edit modes" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/changing-edit-modes/>Changing edit modes</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/creating-looped-sections/ title="Creating looped sections" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/creating-looped-sections/>Creating looped sections</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/stretching-shrinking-regions/ title="Stretching & shrinking regions" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/stretching-shrinking-regions/>Stretching & shrinking regions</a></li></ul></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/mixing-sessions/ title="Mixing sessions" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/mixing-sessions/><b>5. </b>Mixing sessions</a><ul><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/mixing-sessions/the-mixer-strip/ title="The mixer strip" class=dd-item><a 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<span class=links><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/>Home</a> > <a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/starting-sessions/>Starting sessions</a> > Understanding routing</span></div><div class=progress><div class=wrapper><nav id=TableOfContents><ul><li><ul><li><a href=#routing-in-ardour>Routing in Ardour</a></li><li><a href=#how-to-connect-and-disconnect>How to connect and disconnect?</a></li><li><a href=#practical-example-of-routing-to-a-bus>Practical example of routing to a bus</a></li><li><a href=#track--or-bus-specific-views-of-the-patchbay>Track- or Bus-specific views of the Patchbay</a></li><li><a href=#all-ardour-connections-are-jack-connections>All Ardour connections are JACK connections</a></li></ul></li><li><a href=#continuing>Continuing</a></li></ul></nav></div></div></div></div><div id=head-tags></div><div id=body-inner><h1>Understanding routing</h1><p>Routing an audio signal is sending it from somewhere to somewhere else.</p><p>In addition to getting audio signals to and from Ardour, routing plays
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an important part inside Ardour itself. Examples of using routing inside
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Ardour include routing audio from Tracks to the Master Bus or to other
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Busses, creating ‘sends’, routing the outputs from Busses to the Master
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Bus, etc. (see chapter on <strong>Creating a Track</strong> for an explanation of
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Tracks and Busses). All routing, both internal and external to Ardour,
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is handled by JACK.</p><h3 id=routing-in-ardour>Routing in Ardour</h3><p>The standard routing of inputs, tracks and busses in Ardour is
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determined when a new Session is created in the Advanced Options of the
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New Session dialog box (see <strong>Starting a Session</strong> chapter). By default,
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the routing is as follows:</p><ul><li>The audio device inputs are routed to the Track inputs.</li><li>All outputs from Tracks and Busses are routed to the master bus
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inputs.</li><li>The Master Bus outputs are routed to the audio device outputs.</li></ul><p>Note that when a new Bus is created, nothing is routed to its input.</p><p>This routing setup makes sense for sessions containing only Tracks, but
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to make use of any Busses (other than the Master Bus) or to get creative
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with the paths of the audio signals inside Ardour, we need to be able to
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change the routing.</p><p>The Audio Connection Manager window (also known as the patchbay) is the
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main way to make connections to, from ,and within Ardour’s mixer. You
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can open this window with the shortcut “<em>Alt</em>” + “<em>N</em>”, or through the
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menu <em>Window > Audio Connections</em>.</p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Audio_Connection_Manager_Menu.png alt="Audio Connection Manager"> </p><p>The patchbay presents two groups of ports; one set of sources, and one
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of destinations. Sources and destinations are organized by tabs. The
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available sources are displayed vertically on the left side, and the
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destinations are displayed horizontally at the bottom.</p><p>In the screenshot below, notice that the “<em>Hardware</em>” tab is selected on
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the top left (that’s a source), and the “<em>Ardour Tracks</em>” is selected as
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a destination in the bottom. This means that the matrix you see displays
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connections from available hardware sound sources (for example, a
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microphone), into existing Ardour tracks. </p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Audio_Connection_Manager_1.png alt="ACM 1"> </p><p>The green dots represent a connection. The screenshot above tells us
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that incoming sounds from “<em>system: capture_1</em>” (the first input source
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of your soundcard, or the built-in microphone of your laptop) are going
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into Ardour track named “<em>Audio 1</em>”, and also that incoming sounds from
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“<em>system: capture_1</em>” and “<em>system: capture_2</em>” are respectively going
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into the Left and Right inputs of Ardour track named “<em>Audio 2.</em>”</p><p>Notice we can see that “<em>Audio 1</em>” is a Mono track because it only has
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one connection slot, while track “<em>Audio 2</em>” is Stereo since it has two
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slots (Left and Right).</p><p>The next screenshot shows the signal path from Ardour Tracks (selected
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vertical tab) into Ardour Busses (selected horizontal tab). As mentioned
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earlier, the default setting for all Ardour Tracks is that their sound
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goes to the Master Bus.</p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Audio_Connection_Manager_2.png alt="ACM 2"></p><p>Note: remember that “<em>Audio 1</em>” is a Mono track? We saw it in the
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earlier screenshot that “<em>Audio 1</em>” only has one input slot. But now on
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the screenshot above you see that “Audio 1” has two outputs (Left and
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Right). This is normal: we define whether a track is Mono or Stereo by
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its <em>number of inputs</em>, not outputs. Mono tracks will hold a single
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channel of audio, but you can still choose to place the sound on the
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left or the right speaker (or anywhere in between). More on this in the
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chapter <strong>Panning</strong>.</p><p>Finally, let’s explore a couple more tabs in the Audio Connection
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Manager to see the sound going from the Master Bus to the actual
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hardware outputs (your loudspeakers or headphones):</p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Audio_Connection_Manager_3.png alt="ACM 3"></p><p>As you can see, the selected source tab is now “<em>Ardour Busses</em>”, and
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the destination tab is “<em>Hardware</em>”. This session happens to have only
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one bus, the default “master out”. The green dots show that all sounds
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coming out of the Master Bus are going to system playback 1 and 2, which
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are the outputs of your soundcard.</p><h3 id=how-to-connect-and-disconnect>How to connect and disconnect?</h3><p>To make a connection, click on the desired empty square in the matrix; a
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green dot will appear to indicate the connection is made.</p><p>To undo a connection, simply click on an existing green dot and it will
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disappear.</p><h3 id=practical-example-of-routing-to-a-bus>Practical example of routing to a bus</h3><p>In the following example session, there are two guitar Tracks and one
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unused Bus called Guitar Bus, all Stereo.</p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Ardour_Connection_Manager_4.png alt="ACM 4"> </p><p>Suppose you want to send the output from the two guitar Tracks to the
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Guitar Bus instead of the Master Bus. This can be useful to control the
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volume of both guitars with just one Fader (in this case the Guitar Bus
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fader). Then the output of the Guitar Bus, which is the sum of the two
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guitars, goes directly to the Master Bus.</p><p>Here is how to edit the patchbay to get the desired routing. Select
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“Ardour Tracks” tab from Sources (vertical tabs), and “Ardour Busses”
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from destinations (horizontal bottom tabs). Undo existing connections
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from both Tracks to Master. Then create connections from both Tracks to
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Guitar Bus. The final result would look like this:</p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Audio_Connection_Manager_5.png alt="ACM 5"> </p><p>Now both guitar tracks are routed to the Guitar Bus, and no longer
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directly connected to the Master Bus. We then make sure that the Guitar
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Bus is, by its turn, routed to the Master Bus (the output routing of a
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Bus is edited in the same way as for a Track), so that we can still hear
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the sound from both guitar Tracks. Now we can control the volume of both
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guitar Tracks together by changing the Fader of the Guitar Bus. What’s
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more, we can now add Plugins to the Guitar Bus to process the sound of
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both guitar Tracks together.</p><h3 id=track--or-bus-specific-views-of-the-patchbay>Track- or Bus-specific views of the Patchbay</h3><p>The Audio Connection Manager (Patchbay) that you open with <strong>Alt + P</strong> shows you
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the complete matrix of every single source and every single destination
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available in Ardour. Sometimes this is too much: you just want to quickly change
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the routing of a single track input or output, for example. Ardour allows you to
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access a relevant subset of Patchbay connections when you click directly on the
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Inputs or Outputs button of a Track or Bus in the Mixer Strip.</p><p>The Inputs button is at the top, and the Outputs button is on the bottom of the
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strip. Clicking on either one will show you a menu of connection options. In the
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screenshot below, for example, you would click on the “1/2” button right under
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the track name “Guitar-1” in order to access this menu:</p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Editor_Mixer_In_Out.png alt="Editor Mixer In Out"></p><p>You may select a connection right there from the menu, or choose “Routing Grid”
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to see a simpler version of the Audio Connection Manager with only the Inputs
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or Outputs of the selected Track or Bus.</p><h3 id=all-ardour-connections-are-jack-connections>All Ardour connections are JACK connections</h3><p>It is important to realize that any routings that you make or disconnect
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from within Ardour are in fact JACK routings, which you can see from
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other applications like Qjackctl, Catia, or JackPilot, depending on your
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Operating System. Below is an example of a Catia window (Linux only)
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displaying the same JACK connections discussed above:</p><p><img src=en/Ardour4_Catia_Example.png alt=Catia></p><h2 id=continuing>Continuing</h2><p>In this chapter, we covered how to manage Routing inside Ardour, or
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between Ardour and the sound card. However, one of the strengths of
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using the JACK system is that it can also manage connections between
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applications on the same computer. To gain a better understanding of how
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this works, please continue to the chapter <strong>Routing Between
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Applications</strong>. If you would prefer to work only with Ardour, then skip
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