[LAU] FOSS DAW recommendations

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Nov 17 22:43:59 UTC 2017


Robin Gareus <robin-+VlDMftONaMdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On 11/17/2017 07:11 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Robert Edge <thumbknucklerocks-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:
>> 
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7OeIFALN8
>> 
>> Ah, so "(region name)/edit/make mono regions" does not actually edit the
>> region.  Nor does it make it mono.  Nor does it create mono tracks.  But
>> it adds two mono regions to the _region_ _list_ (which is rather
>> inconspicuous and somewhere else on the screen, by default not at all)
>> from where you can then fill newly created mono tracks.  It doesn't
>> bother mentioning what it does in something akin to Emacs' echo area,
>> though: "copied mono regions to region list" would have been a great
>> hint.  It doesn't have some mouse-over help on "make mono regions"
>> either.  You arr on your own guessing what happens.
>> 
>> Sorry, but that's _way_ worse in discoverability than current-day
>> Emacs.  Certainly nothing you could _discover_ on a demo.  Either you
>> know or you don't.
>> 
>
> Why even bother? just use the stereo panner and pan it all the way to
> the left or right?

Yeah, that gave me the correct left microphone on the left.  And the
correct right microphone on the left.  At equal gain.

As I said: there was not enough time to fiddle this in a strictly
time-constrained demo.

-- 
David Kastrup


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