[LAU] Linux programs for creatiing/manipulating sound effects

Robin Gareus robin at linuxaudio.org
Mon Feb 7 21:22:50 UTC 2011


Hi Mike,

On 02/07/2011 04:40 PM, Mike Cookson wrote:
> For non-realtime (including non-linear, like montage) processing you
> need only plugins (ladspa, lv2, vamp) and some editor like Audacity,
> mhWaveEdit or something other.
>
> For realtime (also called
> non-destructive editing... hm, probably, they are right :) you need
> set of various software, that could be used at one time and be
> connected each to other).

real-time effects processing and non-destructive editing often go hand
in hand, but note that

"non-destructive" means that the original [audio] data will never be
modified. Any edit/effect/modifications are saved as new files (or
remebered as application-settings operating on the original data).

audio-editors (rezound, audacity, sweep, etc) are usually destructive:
  load file, apply effect, save file -> original file is gone.

DAWs (ardour, qtractor, ecasound,..) are non-destructive:
  reference file, apply effect or modifications to data
but to save the resulting audio, you need to bounce the track or export
the session.


> It would be better for you to begin with special distros, where all
> necessary staff is installed and has good settings out of box. My
> favorite is kxstudio, as (imho), best variant  vor newbies.
> 
> Lookup for some (or more) articles and videos. 




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