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-Some people complain that Ardour is not "intuitive" to use - its +Some people complain that Ardour is not "intuitive" to use — its lead developer has some thoughts on that.
diff --git a/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/02_about-ardour-documentation.html b/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/02_about-ardour-documentation.html index 0bca9a76..3caf2e20 100644 --- a/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/02_about-ardour-documentation.html +++ b/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/02_about-ardour-documentation.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ title: About Ardour documentation x.- Ctrl x means "press the Ctrl key, keep it pressed + x means "press the key, keep it pressed and then also press the x key.
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ title: About Ardour documentation Note that different platforms have different conventions for which modifier key (Control or Command) to use as the primary or most common modifier. When viewing this manual from a machine identifying itself as - running OS X, you will see Cmd where appropriate (for instance - in the first example above). On other machines you will see Ctrl - instead. + running OS X, you will see Cmd where appropriate (for instance + in the first example above). On other machines you will see + Ctrl instead.
+ Some GUI elements can optionally be controlled with the mouse wheel when + the pointer is hovering over them. The notation for mouse wheel action is + ⇑ ⇐ + ⇓ ⇒ +
+Many times the term context-click is used to indicate @@ -120,6 +128,6 @@ title: About Ardour documentation
Hairy issues that might cause things to go wrong, lose data, impair sound - quality, or eat your proverbial goldfish are displayed in this way. + quality, or eat your proverbial goldfish, are displayed in this way.
diff --git a/_manual/17_mixing/02_panning/01_mono_panner.html b/_manual/17_mixing/02_panning/01_mono_panner.html index f5df157b..1fe1ccf2 100644 --- a/_manual/17_mixing/02_panning/01_mono_panner.html +++ b/_manual/17_mixing/02_panning/01_mono_panner.html @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ title: Mono Panner ----The default mono panner distributes 1 input to 2 outputs. Its -behaviour is controlled by one parameter, called position. The -default setting is "center" (L=50%, R=50%). +The default mono panner distributes 1 input to 2 outputs. Its +behaviour is controlled by a single parameter, the position. By +default, the panner is centered.
The default stereo panner distributes two inputs to two outputs. Its behaviour is controlled by two parameters, width and - position. The - default settings for the stereo panner are width=100% and - position=center. - This stereo panner assumes that the signals + position. By default, the panner is centered at full width. +
++ The stereo panner assumes that the signals you wish to distribute are either uncorrelated (i.e. totally independent), or that they contain a stereo image which is - mono-compatible, such as a co-incident microphone recording, or a + mono-compatible, such as a co-incident microphone recording, or a sound stage that has been created with pan pots.*
@@ -105,47 +105,47 @@ title: Stereo Panner To change the position smoothly, press the right button and drag within the top half of the panner, then release. The position will be limited by the current width setting. Note: you do not need - to grab the position indicator in order to drag + to grab the position indicator in order to drag.
To change the width smoothly, press the right button and drag within the lower half of the panner, then release. The width will be - limited by the current position setting.Note: you do not need to - grab the L/R indicators in order to drag + limited by the current position setting. Note: you do not need to + grab the L/R indicators in order to drag.
-For testing, we apply a pink noise signal to both inputs of an Ardour stereo +For testing, we apply a pink noise signal to both inputs of an Ardour stereo bus with the stereo panner, and feed the bus output to a two-channel analyser. Since pink noise contains equal energy per octave, the expected readout is a straight line, which would indicate that our signal chain does not color the @@ -219,7 +216,7 @@ control LV2 to set the level difference and time delay. Ignore the Trim/Gain analyser.
-Recall that an ORTF microphone pair consists of two cardioids spaced 17 cm +Recall that an ORTF microphone pair consists of two cardioids spaced 17 cm apart, with an opening angle of 110°. For a far source at 45° to the right, the time difference between the capsules is 350 μs or approximately 15 samples at 44.1 kHz. The level difference @@ -249,3 +246,4 @@ carefully for artefacts if you manipulate unknown stereo signals — many orchestra sample libraries for example do contain time-delay components.
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