[LAU] Linux programs for creatiing/manipulating sound effects

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Wed Feb 9 22:16:37 UTC 2011


Excerpts from Bearcat M. Sandor's message of 2011-02-09 20:49:07 +0100:
> On 2/9/2011 3:05 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > SND seems to be extremely powerful and flexible but its learning curve
> > is insane. I just found out that it has a built-in extensive,
> > half-working, possibly useful help system.
> >
> > There's SND-ls that aims to make SND usable by mere mortals, but I'm not
> > sure it achieved this goal yet:
> > http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snd-ls/
> I've understood (though not used) ecasound to have a lower learning 
> curve and be just as able as snd. Is that correct?
> 
> Bearcat M. Sandor

It's hard to say because it's hard to compare those two programs. SND is
a completely scriptable graphical audio editor. Ecasound is a DAW
with a commandline interface and bindings for many programming
languages. I'm sure both can be used for pretty similar things but their
goals are different and they both have a rather steep learning curve.



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