[LAU] Music made with linux: Abundance - Ambient-Psy-Trance

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Mon, November 1, 2010 8:45 am, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:15:28PM +0100, Benjamin Freitag wrote:
>
>> Which seems to confirm that the normalisation is not applied to
>> the mixed signal (which would require two passes or a lot of
>> storage)
>>
>> "
>> Nope, Ardour3 offers the option of normalization in the export menu ,
>> there is a mask where u edit "formats", and there it is(top left)
>> And indeed, if you have a machine fast enough, you may also right-click
>> a region and "normalize" it while playing, i dont know how its done
>> actually, but as ardour has the peaks, it may just search for the
>> highest value and internally gain the difference.
>
> It's still not clear what exactly is happening if you export
> 'the mix' i.e. the output of the master strip, including all
> plugin processing, automation, etc. This signal normally is
> not recorded, there are no peak files for it. The only way to
> find the peak value in that case is to perform the entire
> process. And only then this output can be normalised, either
> by using a stored copy of the output or by doing everything
> again.
>

I noticed that after exporting with normalise enabled the dialog took a
while to close after the progress bar reached the end. Whereas when I
exported without normalise enabled the dialog closed immediately.


Cheers.




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Patrick Shirkey
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