[LAU] Linux programs for creatiing/manipulating sound effects

[david]

Robin Gareus wrote:
> 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.

Audacity is import audio file, apply effect, save project (optional), 
export in chosen format. It never replaces the original file.

It IS destructive in that it applies the effect to its imported copy of 
the original audio. But that doesn't effect the original file unless you 
chose to export to the same location in the same format with the same 
filename.

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