Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] prof multitrack studio
From: Jay Ts (jay_AT_metran.cx)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 16:55:09 EEST
Linium wrote
>
> I had the opporunity to test Wavelab3.0 and Samplitude
> which are 2 multitracks editor.
> Samplitude is far more complete, it is the same than Wavelab plus a
> traditionnal mixer (insert/aux). I have not yet tryed CoolEdit Pro
> but I think it belongs more or less to the same category.
Slightly oversimplified,
Ardor is a multitrack recorder.
Wavelab is an audio file editor. (That has limited recording capabilities.)
Samplitude is a multitrack audio recorder. (No MIDI recording or editing.)
CoolEdit Pro is both a multitrack recorder and wave editor. (No MIDI.)
On Windows, the major apps are Cubase, Logic and Cakewalk Sonar,
which are multitrack audio and MIDI recorders, that have MIDI editing
capability (multiple MIDI editors to choose from, in the case of
Cubase and Logic) and maybe some audio file editing capability.
AFAIK, there is nothing like any of those on Linux yet, and Paul
Davis seems to not care much about adding MIDI support to either
Ardour or LAAGA.
> Paul Davis presented Ardour as an equivalant of the Mackie hardware
> recorder which complement their digital mixing desk.
> It seems to me that Ardour is nice for this task but what kind of
> editing does it offer?
An interesting comment, considering that just earlier I was thinking
it would be nice to have a decent audio file editor for Linux, similar
to Wavelab or Sound Forge.
I'm not so much concerned with Ardour handling audio editing, since
other implementations mostly pass that off to an external application.
(E.g., Steinberg's Cubase and Wavelab, Sonic Foundry's Vegas Audio
and Sound Forge, and the two windows of CoolEdit Pro, one for multitrack
recording, and the other for editing.)
What I *am* concerned about is that in many (most?) modern studio
environments, MIDI sequencing is essential, and it is very important
to integrate that with the audio recording process. Also, for various
reasons, many plugins must have MIDI timing and other MIDI information.
I don't know of any Linux applications that pretend to solve this issue.
Jay Ts
jayts_AT_bigfoot.com
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