Re: [LAU] Linux programs for creatiing/manipulating sound effects

From: Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@email-addr-hidden-hochschule.de>
Date: Fri Feb 11 2011 - 16:00:14 EET

On 02/07/2011 11:03 PM, Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Am 07.02.2011 21:12, schrieb Bearcat M. Sandor:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Thanks for all of the replies. Ardour + plug-ins looks like my best best
>> so far, but i'll check out some of the other options as well. It seems
>> like a good excuse to learn ardour which i've been meaning to do anyhow.
>>
>> When i'm playing with this, are there any guide lines that i can keep in
>> mind to avoid hurting my ears and stereo equipment when i'm playing with
>> stuff? Just adjust all knobs slowly till i know what they do?
>
> I think this will not be available.
>
> Especially modulation-effects like flangers always have the potential to
> produce extreme peaks. If you want to limit the danger to your
> ears/hardware, put a capable limiter like foo lookahead limiter in
> Ardours Master-track. To be even more secure connect Ardours master-outs
> not to your soundcard but to jamin inputs. Then you connect jamin to
> your hardware-ports. Jamin has got a brickwall-limiter that justifies
> its name ;-)

not strictly necessary - the limiter is also availabe as a ladspa plugin
that can be put into ardour's master bus.

i find either a foolproof analog volume control or a Big Red Switch(tm)
in the immediate vicinity of the keyboard very reassuring.
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