The filename for the index-th track of a take: ch01.post-trim.wav, ch02.post-fader.wav,
… — 1-based, because ChannelId is, and the operator reading the folder counts from one.
Zero-padded to two digits so the tracks of an ordinary desk list in track order in any file
manager or DAW import dialog. Past 99 the number simply GROWS (ch100.…): truncating to the
pad would collide two tracks onto one name, which loses audio, and a wider fixed pad would
rename every file on the desks that never reach a hundred tracks. Beyond 99 a plain listing is
no longer in numeric order — a cosmetic cost paid to keep every name unique.
THE TAP IS IN THE NAME, and it is not decoration. A channel now contributes several tracks
at once (§0.3), so a folder of ch01 … ch06 would tell an operator importing it nothing about
which file is the clean input and which is the post-fader stem — and the mistake that makes is
silent: a DAW is perfectly happy to lay the wrong one under the vocal. The segment is the
CATALOGUE id mechanically lowercased, so it is the same word the sidecar and the row use and
not a third spelling: Post-Trim -> post-trim.
The number stays the TRACK ordinal rather than the channel, which is what it has always been —
a stereo strip was already two files — and the sidecar remains the authority on which channel
and which tap a file came off.
The filename for the
index-th track of a take:ch01.post-trim.wav,ch02.post-fader.wav, … — 1-based, because ChannelId is, and the operator reading the folder counts from one.Zero-padded to two digits so the tracks of an ordinary desk list in track order in any file manager or DAW import dialog. Past 99 the number simply GROWS (
ch100.…): truncating to the pad would collide two tracks onto one name, which loses audio, and a wider fixed pad would rename every file on the desks that never reach a hundred tracks. Beyond 99 a plain listing is no longer in numeric order — a cosmetic cost paid to keep every name unique.THE TAP IS IN THE NAME, and it is not decoration. A channel now contributes several tracks at once (§0.3), so a folder of
ch01 … ch06would tell an operator importing it nothing about which file is the clean input and which is the post-fader stem — and the mistake that makes is silent: a DAW is perfectly happy to lay the wrong one under the vocal. The segment is the CATALOGUE id mechanically lowercased, so it is the same word the sidecar and the row use and not a third spelling:Post-Trim->post-trim.The number stays the TRACK ordinal rather than the channel, which is what it has always been — a stereo strip was already two files — and the sidecar remains the authority on which channel and which tap a file came off.