[LAU] Hmmm

[Lorenzo]

James Warden wrote:
>> Up to now I've run away from using Ardour because it's
>> severe overkill
>> for the audio work I do, and has a horrendously steep
>> learning curve.
>>      
> Hi there, I never had any DAW experience before ardour nor did I have any sound "engineering" experience whatsoever. I was just and still am a musician / composer. I never found ardour "horrendously" difficult to use but maybe, since you are familiar with audacity, you expect  both softwares to provide the same kind of functionality. If such is your expectation, you will be "disappointed": Ardour is no sound editor, it's a DAW. Audacity is more an audio editor which happens to have some multitracking capability. In short, each software has a different purpose.
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I also agree that Ardour is not *that* hard... You easily fire up a 
single-track project really and *big* advantage of having real-time 
non-destructive effects and editing, jack and a much better user 
experience is worth the little overload. I have used this set up in 
several situations and have a couple of 'wave editor' projects in my 
home dire just for this.

Otherwies there are various other single-file editors beyond Audacity 
already mentioned on this very list many times. Unfortunately as far as 
I know none seem to have real-time effects capabilities.

Lorenzo

> I rarely use audacity since I am doing multitracking and DAW work. But to quickly retouch an audio file, I find it convenient. No need of jack for this. But on my DAW PC, since jack is running all the time, audacity via portaudio is doing what I expect it to do, namely output sound through jack when its transport is activated. But I would not integrate it into more complex jack graph setup because of its portaudio dependence.
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> Take the time to learn ardour, believe me, the time will be well spent, unless you are not into DAW work but audio editing.
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> Cheers!
> J.
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