Re: [Traverso-devel] Simple bug fix proposal for crash on insert silence <IO> command

[Martin Herren]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:59 PM, ben levitt <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for handling this, guys.
>
> I was thinking it might make sense to rename these from "silent clips"
> to "spacers" or "spacer clips", since that's what I always use them
> for, and since most other people don't seem to use them.  :)  Maybe
> more people would use them if they were named better?

For the moment i don't use them and if i would it would be as spacer
clips as well.

Nevertheless i could imagine another use for them but i don't think it
would work with the current implementation: i know there are some
ladspa plugins that are not filters but generators, so applying them
on a silent clip and adding some filter plugin to it could yeld
interesting results... but for that the silent clip would require to
have channels. And also here the name wouldn't fit, an "empty clip"
would fit better. But for this to be useable the empty clip should
have channels.

Would there be any interest for this ? I know from http://lv2plug.in/
that lv2 plugins can also be generators. If there is interest in it
would it be better to choose the number of channles when creating the
silent/empty clip like choosing the duration or would a clip property
editor be better that would allow setting the channel number ? The
later could be used on other clip as well i presume. Or does something
as a clip property editor already exist somewhat or is planned ?

And while talking clip properties, a way to split a stereo track to
two mono tracks could be usefull as well, i think i saw a feature
request for that on savannah. The question would be how to handle
tracks when doing this.

Cheers,

/Martin

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