Folderol wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:33:03 -1000
> david <gnome@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hartmut Noack wrote:
>>> Am 08.02.2011 09:15, schrieb david:
>>>> Hartmut Noack wrote:
>>>>> Am 08.02.2011 08:35, schrieb david:
>>>>>> Robin Gareus wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 02/07/2011 04:40 PM, Mike Cookson wrote:
>>>>>>>> For non-realtime (including non-linear, like montage) processing you
>>>>>>>> need only plugins (ladspa, lv2, vamp) and some editor like Audacity,
>>>>>>>> mhWaveEdit or something other.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For realtime (also called
>>>>>>>> non-destructive editing... hm, probably, they are right :) you need
>>>>>>>> set of various software, that could be used at one time and be
>>>>>>>> connected each to other).
>>>>>>> real-time effects processing and non-destructive editing often go hand
>>>>>>> in hand, but note that
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "non-destructive" means that the original [audio] data will never be
>>>>>>> modified. Any edit/effect/modifications are saved as new files (or
>>>>>>> remebered as application-settings operating on the original data).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> audio-editors (rezound, audacity, sweep, etc) are usually destructive:
>>>>>>> load file, apply effect, save file -> original file is gone.
>>>>>> Audacity is import audio file, apply effect, save project (optional),
>>>>>> export in chosen format. It never replaces the original file.
>>>>> So there is a major dfference between audiofiles, you have imported
>>>>> and audiofiles, you have recorded with audacity -- correct?
>>>> No, I never have. I usually use JACK, and have never been able to make
>>>> Audacity work with JACK. I've only done the following things with
>>>> Audacity:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Import 16 tracks of 32-bit WAV files (recorded on another machine
>>>> from my church band's Firewire interface using some Windows software)
>>>> and do basic mixing.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Trim and cleanup voice audio recordings made on my PDA.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Trim and convert wave files recorded using jack_capture.
>>>>
>>>> 4. Pitch shift prerecorded MP3s if needed for band members who play
>>>> solely by ear (if the recording's in Eb and we're playing it in D,
>>>> they're lost).
>>>>
>>>> If you have the time and brains needed to learn Ardour, go for it!
>>>>
>>> I think it is a myth, that Ardour is too complicated to learn for a
>>> beginner.
>> Perhaps it's a myth for others. I responded only from my own experience.
>>
>> There are plenty of folk here who use Ardour and do wonderful things
>> with it. Advanced features? I couldn't tell an advanced feature from a
>> basic feature. I couldn't even figure out to simply record anything with
>> it, and Ardour's "automagic" setup didn't seem to include that connection.
>>
>> No insult to Ardour, I'm no audio techno whiz. I figured I'd wait til
>> Ardour 3 is released and I have the time to learn it.
>
> I had exactly the same experience. Twice over a two year period!
>
> These days I either record with timemachine, then process later in audacity, or
> record directly into Rosegarden, where I usually have associated MIDI tracks.
I'm starting to record directly into Rosegarden more now.
Sometimes I just start up jack_capture, then clean up and such in Audacity.
-- David gnome@email-addr-hidden authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Wed Feb 9 16:15:01 2011
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