[LAD] automation on Linux (modular approach)

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Tim E. Real <termtech at rogers.com> wrote:

> I disagree.
> Automation, especially audio automation, is extremely important.
> Some examples:
> When recording real musicians playing real instruments, you don't just
>  record one take, you record several takes, then pick the best one and
>  use the others to patch up the odd mistakes within the best take.
> Without automation, it is impossible to do this.
> It is easy to say "just cut and paste the corrected takes into the best take",
>  but this is not good because you cannot just place the tail end of one
>  wave up against the beginning of another wave - you will get a 'pop'.
> (Advanced apps might do the joining for you, with averaging or filtering).
> With audio automation, you do a quick, but not sudden, fade out of the
>  best take at the correction point, and simultaneously do a quick,
>  but not sudden, fade in of the corrected take. Then you do the reverse
>  when the end of the corrected take arrives.
> This makes the transitions sound smoother.

You can do all of this in Ardour *without* automation.

--p