ardour


Using Plugins & Adding Real-Time DSP FX

Dec. 17, 2002 --Arranged by Ryan Beisner.   Thanks to Dan Harper for pointing out the details and to every participant of the Ardour project.

Updated Friday 24 January 2003



This section assumes you already have the following:  a session with at least one track and region set up to play;  JACK is running and Ardour is connected to it;  LADSPA plugins are installed.  If you're this far, you probably have all of this by now.  After all, you compiled Ardour without errors, right?



jack is running!

Fig. Add-DSP 1-1:  Is JACK Running?




empty editor

Fig. Add-DSP 1-2:  Ardour Editor (main) window with no session loaded.




Now's the time to load your existing session, or build a new one (not covered here).  Here, we use an existing session ("Drop In A Bucket" by BEINWE) with 6 tracks and several regions.


session loaded

Fig. Add-DSP 1-3  Session is loaded and ready.




Adding the Effects

We're going to add a few effects to the vocal track (VOX1).
the redirect button

Fig. Add-DSP 1-4  The "redirects" button.


empty dsp chain

Fig. Add-DSP 1-5  An empty DSP chain.

add effects

Fig. Add-DSP 1-6  Adding plugins.

Notice we added a couple more effects.  You can too.  It will take some playing around to find the effects you like.  Delay is a pretty common and simple plugin, so we'll start there.  It's a sound idea to add only one effect at a time and see what it really does.


loaded effects

Fig. Add-DSP 1-7  Loaded DSP effects/plugins.


edit delay plugin

Fig. Add-DSP 1-8  The Simple Delay effect properties (Edit) window.

mixer effects not enabled

Fig. Add-DSP 1-9  The Mixer window with no effects enabled (yellow).


enabled effects

Fig. Add-DSP 1-10  The loaded DSP plugins.






Related Links

http://ardour.sourceforge.net/
http://www.djcj.org/LAU/ardour/


Comments, corrections, additions:   ryanb/- a+ -\thedataarc.com.  BEINWE music can be found at http://www.stereous.com.