Re: [LAU] Audio editor for editing a 90-minute-long file?

From: Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Jun 14 2008 - 19:07:42 EEST

Ken Restivo:
>>>
>>> There are actually very good reasons to use ardour for post-processing of
>>> live-recordings:
>>> - Its completely non-destructive, even if you slice your 2-hour-file into
>>> 10-seconds snippets and rearrange them and delete them one-by-one, you still
>>> don't loose the material. Yes, you should have backups, but who knows...
>>> - Its _very_ easy to apply mastering effects over the whole session. (And
>>> with the jamin-control-plugin you can change settings between songs.)
>>> - And all editing on effects and automation is non-destructive too. That is
>>> very nice compared to clicking "apply effect (silence)", having the computer
>>> work for ten minutes and the realize that a) its the wrong effect and b)
>>> the "create undo" wasn't selected.
>>> - ardour is definitely not trying to load the whole 2-hour file into ram...
>>
>> Don't forget the CD markers -> TOC export for creating CDs easily with
>> Ardour. Works great for live CDs where you want to add track
>> boundaries with no gaps for disk-at-once burning.
>>
>
> That's it. Next time I will use Ardour.
>
> It would be very nice to split a 90-minute liveset up into multiple,
> song-length WAV's, but it was too much hassle to do that in Audacity. I
> suspect it'd be very easy to do in Ardour.
>

It is very easy to do that in Snd. Snd also handles large files
appropriately (by reading from harddisk while playing and using cached
peak files). Using snd-ls, you can just mark the area you want in a new
file, and right click, select copy to new or save selection.

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