[linux-audio-user] offline processing

[Paul Winkler]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:28:59PM -0500, Chris Pickett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been wondering:  what is it like processing audio offline under 
> Linux?  Is this something that is widely supported?  I did a bunch of 
> google searches using the term "offline" but couldn't find anything 
> really useful.
> 
> My computer is fairly weak (800 MHz laptop, no DSP card).  Currently, if 
> I want to process a file (apply effects, change the sample rate, apply 
> dithering, mix it with another file, etc. etc.), I get the best results 
> / greatest efficiency if I do disk bounces that don't require real-time 
> processing.  Steinberg seem to be very proud that they now support this, 
> which suggests that it isn't the norm, at least under Windows (I don't 
> think Logic ever supported it under Windows).

I believe Ardour now supports track "freezing" - i.e. writing
all mixing & plugins for a track to disk.  I haven't tried it yet.
 
> I'm also curious if there's general support to process MIDI offline as 
> well, but that's not so critical to me, since the computations are far 
> less intense.

some options here... TiMidity, csound.

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