[LAU] Looking for voice recording suggestions

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 10:08:00PM +0100, hollundertee at gmx.net wrote:

> I didn't find a good workflow in ardour, but it somewhat worked.
> For our own voices recordings I used the playlist feature. Not sure
> that was a smart thing. Exporting certainly seems easier with separate
> tracks.
> 
> So that's what I did for the other teams, record on a track per line.
> Sometimes a track per take, sometimes just keep recording those
> multiple takes in a single clip. I then stem-exportet them, because
> that seemed to be the simplest way to get a wav file per track. The
> padding at the end is rather unnecessary though.

If you record one voice at a time, the simplest way is to use just a
single track. You can cut it up later and distribute the pieces to
as many tracks as you like for mixing.

> Because I needed to add new tracks I tried to add multiple at once and
> got silence rather a recording on some of them. That seems like a bug
> in Ardour. When you add tracks during a session every odd one is
> non-functional.

Did you check the track input connections ? Probably Ardour's
autoconnect feature alternated between the two channels of a 
stereo sound card. So every second track would get silence unless
you change the connection manually. It's a 'feature' :-).
Autoconnects are the first thing I disable whenever I install
Ardour, it almost always does the wrong thing.

> So the lack of knowledge on how to properly track and organise using
> Ardour slowed the recordings down a whole lot. I did a weird dance
> where I'd mute the already recorded one, disarm it, add a new one, arm
> it, enable recording and roll. Rinse and repeat a hundred times or so.

You probably need to get to know Ardour a bit more. Even if you 
accidentally record 'over' an existing track that's no problem,
the two recordings are in different regions and you can easily
separate them.

Ciao,

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FA