[LAU] app for simple editing and recording?

[Brett McCoy]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Renato <rennabh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd need to:
> 1) - open mp3/wav files, do some trimming and fade ins/outs and save to
> mp3/wav
> 2) - do some recordings of JACK-apps
>
> and I'd like to do so in one application. Audacity would be
> perfect but it doesn't appear in patchage; I can only decide it's input
> from it's prefs, but I need to have multiple apps that go into it (and
> the prefs dialog won't let me do it)...
>
> All apps I found so far do either 1 and are not JACK-apps (or have a
> problem similar to audacity's) (Rezound,Sweep) or do 2 but not 1
> (Ardour,jack_rec)

Ardour can do both 1 and 2, if you are just doing trimming and
fades... note in Ardour you are not actually editing the audio but
doing non-destructive editing of a playlist (so if you need to go back
and re-edit you can do so easily without harming the audio).

-- Brett
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