Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] multitrack and editor separate?
From: Lamar Owen (lamar.owen_AT_wgcr.org)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 03:40:46 EEST
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 10:11 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> >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.
> the relationship, as you noted, has more to do with "1 click away"
> than it does with anything else.
You know, I've used CEP here in production for this radio station for quite
some time, and while the _capability_ to do the multitrack is great, and it
works in practice, I would much rather have a setup where, like in koffice,
when you go to edit the wave represented by the block you don't get
transported to the single-track mode (unless you _want_ it that way) -- I
would love for the multitracker to stay up while doing editing tasks on the
individual wave blocks, with a 'frame' around the sound block you are working
with. Work with the kparts-implemented koffice for just a little while --
embed a spreadsheet inside a kword document that also contains kontour or
kivio frames -- and you will maybe see what I am talking about. A unified
interface between the multitracker and the editor would be more than nice,
too.
After all, this _is_ the way analog multitrack on tape works -- patch the
effect in on any track while working with all tracks. Most DAW setups allow
similar things to be done -- so that you can hear the effect in the context
of the mix, rather than the context of the track -- preferably in real-time.
And that is my biggest gripe with CEP -- effects are done per track, and it
is time-consuming to fathom the effect's effect on the total mix without
quite alot of switching between the multitrack mode and the single track mode.
When I can get my production lady to use a linux tool to do her daily
multitrack jobs (which always involve compression, normalization, and basic
EQ) then I will know that the state of the art for Linux sound is suitable
for professional work in real-world environments. She took to CEP like a
fish to water, FWIW.
But my main point is this -- out in the radio world, for one, a sound editor
and a multitracker are not necessarily different, and it would be more than
nice to have an integrated 'arbitrary number of tracks EDITOR' that allows
the sort of flexibility for multitrack compositions that desktop publishing
systems have allowed for some time in the printing world. Or, more
succinctly, multitrack recording and waveform/sample editing should not be
considered separate tasks, in my twelve-year radio experience (ten of which
have been with hard-drive PC-based automation systems).
I look forward to the next O'Reilly network article on Snd, and on the
continuing development of ardour.
-- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
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