Re: [LAU] Music made with linux: Abundance - Ambient-Psy-Trance

From: Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 02 2010 - 12:45:14 EET

Excerpts from Patrick Shirkey's message of 2010-11-02 05:29:25 +0100:
> On Mon, November 1, 2010 8:45 am, fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:15:28PM +0100, Benjamin Freitag wrote:
> >
> >> Which seems to confirm that the normalisation is not applied to
> >> the mixed signal (which would require two passes or a lot of
> >> storage)
> >>
> >> "
> >> Nope, Ardour3 offers the option of normalization in the export menu ,
> >> there is a mask where u edit "formats", and there it is(top left)
> >> And indeed, if you have a machine fast enough, you may also right-click
> >> a region and "normalize" it while playing, i dont know how its done
> >> actually, but as ardour has the peaks, it may just search for the
> >> highest value and internally gain the difference.
> >
> > It's still not clear what exactly is happening if you export
> > 'the mix' i.e. the output of the master strip, including all
> > plugin processing, automation, etc. This signal normally is
> > not recorded, there are no peak files for it. The only way to
> > find the peak value in that case is to perform the entire
> > process. And only then this output can be normalised, either
> > by using a stored copy of the output or by doing everything
> > again.
> >
>
> I noticed that after exporting with normalise enabled the dialog took a
> while to close after the progress bar reached the end. Whereas when I
> exported without normalise enabled the dialog closed immediately.
>
>
> Cheers.

It would be quite a faux pas if it didn't work on the mix but on
individual tracks instead, but from your description of messed up levels
it sounds like it. If you compared the two mixes at the same level and
they sounded different, then A3 messed up.

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