Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] multitrack
From: Rocco (linuxmedia4_AT_netscape.net)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 12:13:29 EEST
felix.news_AT_qodiga.com wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm looking for the best multitrack for linux. I was used audacity,
> and protux.
>
> I think that ardour is the best [just only reading the features and
> watching screenshots] but I have a problem with jackd.
I was working with ardour and it looked really good. But then I kept
running into problems with Jack also. So I went back to using ecasound.
It's a command line multitrack recorder, but does a lot more, (like fx,
file conversions, ladspa plugins...). I plan on getting Jack running
some day. But for now, I can do everything I need with ecasound. It's
very stable and powerful. And there's a very good Front End called
"tkeca". But I would wait for the next version of tkeca because the
developer said that He will be working on fixing some bugs and/or adding
certain features. But the last version of tkeca was promising. But if
you don't mind a command line multitracker go with ecasound. I recomend
using the "-c" option. It puts it in "interactive mode" so that You can
do "t" to start, "fw xx" to fast forward xx seconds, "setpos xx" to seek
to xx seconds into the recording (just to name a few).
By the way, if you use Midnight Commander (file utility program),
ecasound becomes much easier to work with because you can create a bash
script with all of the ecasound settings in it and press enter to run
it. then You can press F4 on the file and make changes with the Midnight
Commander's internal editor and and then simply press enter on the
script file to run it again. You can use Midinight Commander's ablity to
reconize a file type and configure it to use ecasound to play a wav, mp3
or whatever file format you're using, so You can quickly view a single
track if nesesary. ecasound also has a few of it's own file formats that
you can use along with Midnight Commander also for "quick viewing" or
testing of things. I found this set up to be a quick way to make
changes, view things quickly and record quickly and efficiently.
type "mc" into the bash shell to see if you have Midinight Commander
installed.
Rocco
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