[linux-audio-user] mixdown, ardour + soft synths

[Patrick Shirkey]

Atte André Jensen wrote:
>  
> Say I wrote a song with sounds coming from zyn/specimen and cue 
> vocal/acoustic guitar coming from ardour. I generate two .wav's of my 
> song, one with and one without my cue vocal. I send the files to a real 
> singer, who imports the non-vocal-infected version in cubase, records 
> her vocals (one mono track) and sends the new vocal-only file to me. I 
> import the file in ardour and now without any tweaking the vocal should 
> line up (time wise) with the music "in sync".
> 

Freeze the track then export as an individual file/track. Then the other 
person just imports each one into their editor and they will be in 
perfect sync. Conversely make a selection and export the selected area 
for each track. AFAIK ardour does not have support for automating this 
task but neither does Protools or Logic IIUC.

> 
> Secondly I'm actually not sure exactly how to mixdown a project to a 
> stereo track in ardour. Would I have to create a stereo track, connect 
> all tracks output to the new tracks ins, press record and let the entire 
> project play/record in realtime? I was hoping for an "offline" mixdown 
> so that I don't have to 1) connect and 2) wait for 5 mins (provided the 
> song is 5 mins)...
> 

I use the master outputs into a new stereo track or just export to 
stereo from the master outputs only.


Cheers.


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