Do not render 'This channel is silent'
stefandrissen opened this issue · 2 comments
I've generated quite some oscilloscope videos for SAM Coupé tunes. The SAM Coupé uses a Philips SAA1099 sound chip which has six stereo channels. When rendering, I split the channels into left and right components, showing left on the left and right on the right.
Sometimes the left or right component of a channel is silent. This is indicated with 'This channel is silent', which is fine.
If both left and right are silent I will remove them both. But when only left or right is silent I would like to keep both sides in for balance.
Unfortunately the 'This channel is silent' message is also rendered into the video, see for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkpzhIunJHY
Can that channel be presented as a zero amplitude line instead?
You can manually replace them with a blank channel but it's not exactly user-friendly :) Have a try with build 124 which adds a RenderIfSilent option to each channel:
Nice! That was quick! :-)