[linux-audio-user] What wave-editor to use for voice removal?

[Brian Redfern]

Sweep is pretty flexable

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On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Remco Poelstra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For a musical I've to remove the background choirs from a karaoke cd. 
> The CD sounds like it's MIDI, and it's some simple music. I hope I can 
> remove the choirs by overwriting them with other parts of the song that 
> have the same instrumental parts.
> The problem is that I can't find a good editor to do so.
> I need some multitrack capabilty, to lay all the different parts on 
> different tracks for easy editing.
> I need some form of volume-envelope/automation for smooth fading of the 
> tracks (fade in/out plugins are not an option because I need to tweak 
> it and that's difficult with plugins that work on selections).
> The obvious candidates like audacity and ardour don't work, because 
> audacity has no markers, so I can't find back the positions from where 
> I cut and ardour is too buggy to use.
> I've looked at linuxsound.at for editors, but most are still too much 
> under development.
> 
> I hope someone here can give me a good hint on what editor can be used. 
> Perhaps I missed a feature in one editor that can help me? What editor 
> would you choose?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Remco Poelstra
>