[LAU] Audacity: not good for making loops

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sat Jun 27 16:01:28 EDT 2009


On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Kim Cascone<kim at anechoicmedia.com> wrote:
> I guess I must have misread the Audacity web site and the manual because
> a moderator on the Audacity Forum just enlightened me to the fact that
> Audacity is NOT an audio editor (as 99.9% of the users falsely believe)
> but an 'Editorial Production Environment Manager'! </sarcasm>
>
> Audacity leaves *a lot* to be desired when it comes to making loops
>
> to wit: having to hit stop or pause so Audacity can 'pick up' the loop
> start and/or stop markers that were moved during playback makes crafting
> loops very painful - I'd go so far as to say useless actually.
>
> can anyone suggest an audio editor (on Linux) that edits loops in real-time?
>
> thanks in advance!
>
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It's a long shot but possibly QTractor?

Good luck,
Mark



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