RE: [linux-audio-dev] multitrack and editor separate?

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Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] multitrack and editor separate?
From: Ivica Bukvic (ico_AT_fuse.net)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 06:37:30 EEST


I agree wholeheartedly. It would be absolutely wonderful if both of them
were integrated (like ardour+snd = killer combo).

Ico Bukvic, composer & audio designer
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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] multitrack and editor separate?

As Dave
> notes, and others would do well to heed, editing an audio file is one
> thing, multichannel work and/or audio sequencing is something else.
>

...sure, but Cool-Edit Professional for windows shows how often a static
mixing [multitrack] environment is used as an intergral part of the overall
editing project - you make a mix of several samples and dump it back in the
editor for further processing. maybe afterwards you send it back to the
multitracker to layer it up with other samples.
sequencing, well that is for a very particular kind of composition.

syntrillium [producer] obviously recognises that a multitracker should in
fact come with the editor, and does a very fine job of making this work.
in work that i do, for instance [and i am not an exception] , it isn't
uncommon to have 70 or 80 samples open simultaneously in a composition; by
being able to double-click a wave in the multitrack window to take me over
to the waveform where i edit it further [without saving] and then return to
the multitrack, provides for a highly efficient working environment. having
to open up the file in a separate editor, then save it, then re-open it up
in the multitrack makes larger compositional projects, like electroacoustic
work, special fx and film scores very difficult. they don't have to be
together in the same window [as in SoundEdit16 on the mac for instance], so
much as a click apart; as in many other application environments where you
have eg: a 'objects' [editor] and 'scenes' [multitrack].

for this reason the ABC in my country, and several universities are
replacing other professional editing/multitrack packages with Cool-Edit
Pro..it is testimony that there is a wide demand for an editor and
multitracker to be put together in an intuitive relation.

if you are, however, lucky enough to be one of those rare composers that can
produce all their samples first before taking them over to the
multitracker - then a separation of these two parts of the composition
process is not a problem. for the rest of us howver, composition is so often
about trying out arrangements of timbres, textures, acoustics, amplitudes,
harmonics and noise beds during the working process. for this reason a
multiracker / editor combination is ideal.

de|

Interactive Information Institute
R.M.I.T
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Australia


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