Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] "pro" soundfile editors for linux
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: ma helmi 07 2000 - 13:34:20 EST
Typical, I didn't read enough messages before I started writing. :)
Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> more
> than that, things like ardour, which will need to be able to play back
> the result sometimes need to understand how to read the edit list.
OK, as long as that works, my comments on switching from edit-mode
to record-mode are taken care of.
Or maybe not... see below.
> i am actually a little uncertain about some of my basic thinking
> here. right now, i consider ardour to just be a recorder. having spent
> part of yesterday working with protools, it is getting harder in my
> mind to cleanly separate the recording/editing steps (as snd
> demonstrates also). to try to reiterate: in my head, the task of
> getting together the basic set of tracks is different that the task of
> editing them, sequencing them, applying transforms, etc. but when you
> sit down with protools, and record directly into the audio sequencer,
> so to speak, some of these distinctions fade away, and i don't know if
> thats a good or a bad thing.
I can't answer that for you but here's another consideration.
I think most musicians would agree with me that one's performance is
inflected by changes in the musical context... and in modern music,
effects are very much part of the musical context.
Correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't have access to a protools studio
at the moment :)...I *believe* that when you apply an effects plugin
to a track in ProTools, unless you render the result to a track,
it's basically as if you've just routed an effects send to an
external processor. You can record, edit, whatever, and you don't
have to think about that effect anymore.
You would be really annoyed if you then started to overdub a new
track and it ignored all your effects loops because the recorder
didn't think its job included FX routing!
You'd then be forced to render all the processed tracks to new temp.
tracks... yuck, kludge. you should never be forced to do that until
you run out of DSP power.
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