Joel, while testing the fade function, i started an empty project, added a bus, but when i tried to add a track to the bus, i got this: ..................................................................... alex@parchmentstudios ~ $ nama -n -t //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / / / Nama multitrack recorder v. 1.068 (c)2008-2009 Joel Roth / / / / Audio processing by Ecasound, courtesy of Kai Vehmanen / / / //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Found config file: /home/alex/.namarc reading user customization file custom.pl *********************************************************************** * Message from libecasoundc: * * 'ECASOUND' environment variable not set. Using the default value * value 'ECASOUND=ecasound'. *********************************************************************** Starting Ecasound server Creating socket on port 2868. project_name: untitled file not found: /mnt/sdd/audioprojects/untitled/State.yml No. Name Ver Set Stat Source Bus Vol Pan ============================================================================= 1 Master -- mon MON -- Master 100 50 2 Mixdown -- off OFF -- Mixdown -- -- No tracks to record or play. nama [Mixdown] create fadetest file not found: /mnt/sdd/audioprojects/fadetest/State.yml created project: fadetest No. Name Ver Set Stat Source Bus Vol Pan ============================================================================= 1 Master -- mon MON -- Master 100 50 2 Mixdown -- off OFF -- Mixdown -- -- No tracks to record or play. nama [Mixdown] asub VL1 No. Name Ver Set Stat Source Bus Vol Pan ============================================================================= 1 Master -- mon MON -- Master 100 50 2 Mixdown -- off OFF -- Mixdown -- -- 3 VL1 -- rec (REC) bus Main 100 50 No tracks to record or play. nama [VL1/VL1] add VL1-1; stereo; source violins1.ports; set bus VL1 VL1-1: setting to stereo VL1-1: input set to JACK ports list violins1.ports illegal key: bus for object of type Audio::Nama::Track at (eval 1083) line 753 nama [VL1/VL1] ................................................................................................................. Regards, Alex. -- www.openoctave.org midi-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx development-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx