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# Ardour - the open source Digital Audio Workstation
# Overview and Source Tree Layout
Welcome to the in-code documentation for Ardour.
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* `luasession/`
arlua -- commandline interface to libardour
arlua -- fully fledged commandline interface to libardour
## Libraries
A collection of libraries and utility functions. Most are shared
libraries, and almost all are exclusive to Ardour.
A few specific libraries are compiled statically (e.g. fluidsynth for use in plugins).
### Ardour specific libs
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* `libs/evoral/`
Control events, control lists, automation evaluation,
parameter descriptions, incl. MIDI event abstraction
Evoral is Ardour's event Library, used for control events, control lists, automation evaluation,
parameter interpolation, parameter descriptions, incl. MIDI event abstraction.
- `libs/evoral/libsmf/` (contains several non-upstreamed fixes)
Handling Standard MIDI File format. Abstracted to C++ in SMF.{cc,h}
(used inside evoral)
Handling Standard %MIDI File (Evoral::SMF) format. Abstracted to C++ in SMF.{cc,h}
* libs/backends/
Interaction with Operating System's Audio/MIDI API:
ALSA, CoreAudio, JACK, PortAudio/ASIO, PulseAudio
see ARDOUR::AudioBackend
* `libs/surfaces/`
Control Surfaces, dynamically loaded by libardour on runtime,
to remote-control ardour (midi bindings, network etc).
see ARDOUR::ControlProtocol
* `libs/midi++2/`
MIDI parsing, MIDNAM handling, Port abstraction for I/O
%MIDI parsing, MIDNAM handling, Port abstraction for I/O
* `libs/temporal`
Various utility code for dealing with different kinds of time,
including Timecode (FPS) and musical time conversions.
including Timecode, and musical time conversions (Temporal::Beats, Temporal::BBT_Time).
This library also provides the fundamental time types, and the *TempoMap*.
See <https://ardour.org/representing-time.html> for more information.
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Pan plugins (stereo-balance, VBAP, etc) are dynamically loaded at runtime.
see ARDOUR::Panner
* `libs/audiographer/`
Mini Ardour inside Ardour to export audio-files from sessions.
It is a combination of AudioGrapher::Source and AudioGrapher::Sink classes that are chained together by ARDOUR::ExportGraphBuilder as shown in the ASCII art
[Export Graph](https://git.ardour.org/ardour/ardour/src/commit/0df0e14e2309a00d433827fa34b87638b87f4fff/libs/ardour/export_graph_builder.cc#L73-L154).
* `libs/ardour/`
This is it. libardour runs Ardour sessions.
All realtime processing happens here, plugins are managed etc.
Some starting points are ARDOUR::Route ARDOUR::Session ARDOUR::Processor
### UI related libs
* libs/gtkmm2ext/
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* `libs/canvas/`
Cairo Canvas, provides a slate for scalable drawing and basic layout/packing
This is used by `gtk2ardour`'s main editor.
This is used by Ardour's main editor.
See ArdourCanvas::GtkCanvas and ArdourCanvas::Item
* `libs/widgets/`
Ardour GUI widgets (buttons, fader, knobs, etc)
Ardour GUI widgets (buttons, fader, knobs, etc). They are basically all CairoWidget%s
* `libs/waveview/`
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* libs/tk/
A localized version of GTK+2, renamed as YTK:
A localized version of GTK+2, renamed as YTK. See Gtk namespace for relevant documentation.
- `libs/tk/ydk` `libs/tk/ytk`
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### Plugin Scan Tools
By default plugins are scanned by a dedictaed external process. If that crashes the
By default plugins are scanned by a dedicated external process. If that crashes the
main application is not affected, and the plugin that causes the scanner to crash can be
blacklisted.
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* `libs/fst/`
VST2/3 plugin scan commandline tools
VST2/3 plugin scan commandline tools.
* `libs/vfork/`
A exec-wrapper which redirects file-descriptors to be used with vfork(2)
A exec-wrapper which redirects file-descriptors to be used with vfork(2).
It is used to launch external applications, without impacting real-time
constraints of the calling process.
### Ardour Community Effect (ACE) Plugins
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### Independent, standalone libs
These are 3rd party libs that have been copied into Ardour's source-tree.
* `libs/aaf/`
Unmodified <https://github.com/agfline/LibAAF> for importing AAF sessions.
use `tools/update_libaaf.sh` to update from upstream.
Use `tools/update_libaaf.sh` to update from upstream.
* `libs/appleutility/`
Utility Classes, abstraction for CoreAudio and AudioUnits (OSX, macOS)
Utility classes, abstraction for CoreAudio and AudioUnits (OSX, macOS)
* `libs/ardouralsautil/`
Utility Class for device-listing (used by the jack and ALSA backends).
Utility class for device-listing (used by the JACK and ALSA backends).
Device-reservation commandline tool (linked against libdbus), which is
also available from <https://github.com/x42/alsa_request_device>
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* `libs/fluidsynth/`
Stripped down (library only) and slightly customized version of fluidsynth.
Use `tools/update_fluidsynth.sh` to update from upstream.
* `libs/hidapi/`
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* `libs/libltc/`
Unmodified <https://github.com/x42/libltc/> for Linear Timecode en/decoding
Unmodified <https://github.com/x42/libltc/> for Linear Timecode en/decoding. see LTCFrame.
* `libs/lua/`
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* `libs/ptformat/`
Unmodified <https://github.com/zamaudio/ptformat> for loading ProTools sessions
Unmodified <https://github.com/zamaudio/ptformat> for loading ProTools sessions.
* `libs/qm-dsp/`
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* `libs/zita-convolver/`
convolution kernel, so far only available to Lua scripts.
A convolution kernel, so far only available to Lua scripts.
* `libs/zita-resampler/`
Efficient resampler with variable rate, useful for adaptive resampling.
Mainly used for vari-speed playback. This has been customized for multiple mono
channel processing, and optimized to skip processing for a ratio of 1:1.
channel processing (ArdourZita::VMResampler), and optimized to skip processing for a ratio of 1:1.
## RESOURCE FILES
## Resource Files
These are bundled as-is.
These are platform independent files, and bundled as-is.
* `share/export/`
Export Presets
Export Format and Presets (see <https://manual.ardour.org/exporting/edit-export-format-profile/>)
* `share/mcp/`
Mackie control surface device files
Mackie control surface device files (see <https://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/devices-using-mackielogic-control-protocol/>)
* `share/midi_maps/`
Generic MIDI control surface presets
Generic %MIDI control surface presets
* `share/osc/`
Configuration presets for the OSC control surface
[TouchOSC](https://hexler.net/touchosc) layouts for use with Ardour's OSC control surface.
* `share/patchfiles/`
MIDNAM files, MIDI synth descriptions (note-names, CC, PGM names)
MIDNAM files, %MIDI synth descriptions (note-names, CC, PGM names)
* `share/scripts/`
Lua scripts (files with a leading underscore are not bundled).
see `share/scripts/README` for file name convention.
Lua scripts (files with a leading underscore are not bundled).
see `share/scripts/README` for file name convention.
* `share/templates/`
Session templates (currently none)
Session templates (currently none)
## MISC
## Miscellaneous
* `doc/`
Misc developer oriented documentation files and Doxygen
Misc developer oriented documentation files and Doxygen
* `patches/`
Some .diff files for the build-stack.
Some .diff files for the build-stack.
* `tools/`
Various developer tools, most notably packaging scripts
Various developer tools, most notably packaging scripts

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/**
*
* \page libsmf libsmf - general usage instructions
* \page libsmf libsmf - Standard MIDI File format library
*
* An smf_t structure represents a "song". Every valid smf contains one or more tracks.
* Tracks contain zero or more events. Libsmf doesn't care about actual MIDI data, as long