Re: [LAU] PortAudio and Audacity+jack

From: Scott <lau@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 10 2009 - 21:03:44 EEST

Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea schrieb:
> > Scott wrote:
> >> Peter Nelson wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 02:00 +0200, hollunder@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:43:32 -0700
> >>>> Scott <lau@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> ...
> >> I didn't explain my purpose for using Audacity. I use it to play
> MP3 files, but also
> >> to change their tempo while preserving the pitch so I can learn
> drum and guitar parts
> >> for complicated riffs. It's excellent for this purpose. I've
> tried a few other tempo
> >> control apps before but they were excessively choppy. It's been a
> while so if anyone
> >> can recommend one that works better than Audacity these days, I'd
> love to hear it.
>
> SND has separate sliders for pitch and speed based on granular
> synthesis. Works very much OK for me - quite a bit better then to have
> the thing rendered before hearing and still with acceptable sound-quality.
>
> >>
> > Try rezound
>
> Rezound is just great in terms of concept and it is still the most
> comfortable destructive wave-editor for Linux. But let us be honest: it
> has not seen a update in years ...

I was about to say this. I was attempting to compile an RPM of the
latest version and found that it requires XFree86-devel as a
dependency. It looks promising, but I hit my limit with regard to how
much time I spend on software versus time spend playing music. Audacity
will have to do.

-Scott
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