ardour/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml

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<section id="sn-setting-up-to-record">
	<title>Setting Up To Record</title>
	<para>
		This page needs massive work
	</para>

	<para>
		It is very important that you check your system is connected and configured
		correctly before attempting to record. See Hardware Installation for more
		information on this topic.
	</para>

	<section id="setup-connections">
		<title>Connections</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-levels">
		<title>Levels</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-clipping">
		<title>Clipping</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="record-enabling-tracks">
		<title>Record Enabling Tracks</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-monitoring">
		<title>Monitoring</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-hardware-monitoring">
		<title>Hardware Monitoring</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-software-monitoring">
		<title>Software Monitoring</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-latency">
		<title>Latency</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-external-monitoring">
		<title>External Monitoring</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-auto-input">
		<title>Auto-Input</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-track-naming">
		<title>Track Naming</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-default-names">
		<title>Default names</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="disk-allocation">
		<title> Disk Allocation </title>
		<para>
			It is of course possible to use Ardour on a single-disk system, but you are
			more likely to have performance problems this way.
		</para>

		<para>
			If you have more than one disk available, we highly recommend using one
			"system" disk and one or more "audio" disks.
		</para>

		<section id="using-the-system-disk">
			<title>Using the system disk </title>
			<para>
				The "system" disk is the main disk on which your operating system and
				(usually) all your installed software reside.
			</para>

			<para>
				If you have any other disks available, it is usually
				<emphasis>not</emphasis>
				advisable to put your Ardour session and all its soundfiles on the main
				system disk. The reason is that this disk may be used at any time by the
				OS or other programs and, if Ardour is trying to play a large amount of
				disk data at that moment, in the worst case this can cause Ardour's
				playback to stop completely. (insert screenshot of error dialog here)
			</para>

			<para>
				Even so, if you have only two disks (the system disk and your audio disk),
				it is possible that a large session will reach the performance limits of a
				single dedicated audio disk. In this case, it may be better to put some
				audio data on the system disk as described in the Soft RAID section below.
			</para>
		</section>

		<section id="using-multiple-disks">
			<title> Using Multiple Disks </title>
			<section id="hardware-raid">
				<title>Hardware RAID</title>
				<para>
					You can of course use a normal RAID disk array to spread data across
					multiple disks. This is beyond the scope of this manual.
				</para>
			</section>

			<section id="soft-raid-path">
				<title>Ardour's "Soft" RAID Path</title>
				<para>
					It is possible to spread the resources for your Ardour session across
					multiple disks. This can increase the number of tracks or regions you can
					work with at once.
				</para>

				<para>
					There is no reason to do this if your computer has only one disk.
				</para>

				<para>
					To use the "soft RAID" feature, manually create a new directory on
					another disk. Open the Options Editor window. Click on the Paths/Files
					tab. In the "session RAID path" text box, you will see that the default
					value is the path to the directory where your current session lives. But
					this Session RAID Path can actually be a colon-separated list of
					directories. To add your new directory to this list, type a single colon
					after the existing Session RAID Path, followed by the full path to the
					new directory. Ardour will now record new tracks to either directory.
					(question: how does ardour decide which files go where?)
				</para>

				<para>
					You can squeeze some more disk performance out of an existing session by
					following the above procedure, then manually moving some files from the
					<code>sounds/</code>
					subdirectory of the existing session into a
					<code>sounds/</code>
					subdirectory of your new directory. Be very careful when doing this! If
					you accidentally delete these sound files, Ardour cannot magically fix it
					for you.
				</para>

				<note>
					<para>
						If you use the "soft" RAID feature described above, take care to
						remember this when making and restoring session backups! You will not be
						happy if you forget to back up one of your data directories; and
						restoring a backup won't work if you don't make sure that the "Session
						RAID Path" setting corresponds to the directories where you actually put
						the restored files.
					</para>
				</note>
			</section>
		</section>
	</section>

	<section id="recording-modes">
		<title> Recording modes </title>
		<section id="destructive-recording">
			<title> destructive recording </title>
			<para>
				When creating tracks, there are 2 different options: Normal tracks and
				Tape tracks. Tape tracks implement a "destructive" style of recording that
				is useful when you will be making multiple recordings to the same track,
				and you don't want to keep a separate "region" on disk for each take.
				There is no undo function (yet) and there is no way to edit a tape track
				(yet). So what is this good for? Well, consider the case where you are
				doing a final mixdown of a project. You could record-enable two Tape
				tracks, and send the master bus output to these tracks. Every time you
				play through a section of the project, the resulting mix will be recorded
				onto the continuous tape track. Once you reach the end of the project, you
				can send the resultant wav file directly to the next production step.
				There is no "rendering" step required. The utility of this increases when
				you are using an outboard, automated mixer. This type of recording is very
				common on a film dubbing stage.
			</para>
		</section>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-loop-recording">
		<title>loop recording</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="setup-punch-recording">
		<title>Punch Recording</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="recording-with-a-click-track">
		<title>Recording with a Click track</title>
		<para></para>
	</section>

	<section id="the-click-track">
		<title>The Click Track</title>
		<para>
			Enabling the click Routing the click Specifying click sounds Default Meter
			Default Tempo
		</para>
	</section>

	<section id="tempo">
		<title>Tempo</title>
		<para>
			manual tempo tap tempo
		</para>
	</section>
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