[LAU] app for simple editing and recording?

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Brett McCoy's message of 2010-05-16 01:00:28 +0200:
> 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

Ardour doesn't load mp3 files, afaik. I know that traverso can do all of that,
I'd recommend using the git version at the moment, but maybe the latest
release will suffice for what you want.
Qtractor might also be able to do it. Don't know about the others.
-- 

Regards,
Philipp