[linux-audio-user] Mastering; Rezound, fir filter, digital clipping

[Jan Depner]

Steve,

	I'll try to keep the tarball on my site up to date since CVS is hosed. 
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/jamin.tgz

Jan

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:47, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:11:59AM +0100, Daniel James wrote:
> > > I know Steve Harris was working on a mastering toolkit.
> > >
> > > Its now a jack app (which mostly uses LADSPA for its processing):
> > > http://sf.net/projects/jamin its nearing the stage where feedback
> > > on the UI and sound quality would be useful
> > 
> > I'll give it a go - will there a tarball release for the CVS 
> > challenged?
> 
> Not yet, its not quite ready for its first release yet. As sf's CVS is a bit
> messed up at the moment we could put out interrim releases, but I can't as
> my external connectivity is up the wall this morning.
>  
> > Can Jamin load an audio file without having Jack running? I tend to do 
> > most of this type of audio tweaking on saved files, so realtime 
> > operation for a program like this isn't really required here. The 
> > fewer dependencies, the better! 
> 
> JAMin cant currently run without jack, the i/o + processing code is very
> complicated and making it work for i/o systems in addition to JACK
> would make it even worse.
> 
> The idea is that you play the audio from a jack transport enabled player
> (eg ardour, ecasound or alsaplayer) and control the transport stuff from
> jamin. That doesn't work yet, but Jack O'Q. is working on it.
> 
> This means that you can link jamin to your ardour (or insert name of
> favourite multitrack editor) session and make individual level changes to
> source tracks, rather than messing with EQ in the mastering stage. Several
> of us think this is the Right ThingTM and should be encoruaged.
> 
> jamin may grow the ability to write files out OTOH, for when you dont want
> to suck it back into your multitrack, and I think the eventual idea is to
> make loading a simple wav file via a jack file player pretty transparent.
> 
> - Steve