[linux-audio-user] Audacity/Windows/Plugins

[Daniel James]

On Thursday 29 Apr 2004 10:50 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Since writing the first message here I Spent some time looking at
> the Audacity-help archives. I think I won't even bother loading
> Audacity. It appear the community is not very helpful. It looks
> like fewer than 20% of the requests there get even a single
> response.

I don't think that's the case at all - try the audacity-users and 
audacity-devel lists and you'll see lots of requests for help being 
answered.

Audacity is an excellent destructive editor, especially for very large 
projects that can't be worked on with a RAM-based editor, such as 
Sweep. It's also very easy to use for musicians who aren't computer 
literate, because the GUI is very straightforward.

It can also be used as a multitrack recorder, although overdubs need 
manual timing adjustment because the latency using the OSS interface 
isn't great. The main limitations on Linux are that native ALSA and 
JACK support is still experimental, but apart from that it is 
extremely stable and reliable. We can record eight tracks at 48KHz 
sample rate for half an hour or more without glitches. (For some 
reason, at 44.1KHz we can only do six inputs reliably).

Cheers

Daniel