[LAU] noobie learning about recording and 64 studio....

Burkhard Wölfel versuchsanstalt at gmx.de
Fri Mar 26 20:55:28 EDT 2010



Am 23.03.2010 um 08:12 schrieb Viktor Mastoridis <viktor at mastoridis.co.uk 
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> Here's my attempt:
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> What does Audacity do?  Would it be helpful in my above recording  
> activity?
> What does Qsynth do that ZynAddSubFX doesn't?
> Qsynth plays soundFont banks (sf2). More often then not, these would  
> contain sound libraries (banks) with sounds ordered following the  
> MIDI standard (Pianos, basses, strings etc ). These sf2 fonts can be  
> either downloaded for free from Internet (http://tinyurl.com/ 
> ycnkkal) or purchased (http://tinyurl.com/yaeo4d9). Bad, good and  
> better imitations of real instruments, basically.
> ZynAddSubFX generates its own sounds using sophisticated tone- 
> generators.
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> What is the difference between Jamin and GCDMaster?
> Jamin is a Mastering program. Once you have recorded your midis on  
> Rosengarden using either Qsampler for soundfonts or ZynAddSubFX as  
> sound engines, and you have composed your drums in Hydrogen, and  
> recorded your vocals/guitars in Ardour, you want to make a nice  
> balance of the recording, and even it out dynamically and frequency- 
> wise (make a Master recording). So you run all those apps through  
> jamin, and record its output as a track in say, Ardour. You put this  
> track in GCDMaster to get it ready for burning on disk.
> Jamin has a compressor and EQ, GCDMaster doesn't.
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> and also between Timemachine and Ardour?
> Time machine is a basic recorder of everything that goes in or out  
> of jack.

Its a buffer that holds as many seconds of audio as you configure it  
to hold. Hit its only button and voila: there you have the last n  
seconds of audio that you just thought you didnt record.

That's why its called Time Machine. Small app, makes miracles happen.

> Ardour is a multi-track recorder, DAW.
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