[LAU] Linux programs for creatiing/manipulating sound effects

[Hartmut Noack]

Am 08.02.2011 08:35, schrieb 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.

So there is a major dfference between audiofiles, you have imported and 
audiofiles, you have recorded with audacity -- correct?

>
> 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.
>