Re: [linux-audio-user] mixdown, ardour + soft synths

Thorsten Wilms wrote: Ok, let me elaborate a bit with an example then. Say I wrote a song with sounds coming from zyn/specimen and cue vocal/acoustic guitar coming from ardour. I generate two .wav's of my song, one with and one without my cue vocal. I send the files to a real singer, who imports the non-vocal-infected version in cubase, records her vocals (one mono track) and sends the new vocal-only file to me. I import the file in ardour and now without any tweaking the vocal should line up (time wise) with the music "in sync". You mean recording all my soft synths into ardour and doing a mixdown there? First it's a bit cumbersome to record the synths, and this would only serve the purpose of the mixdown, since I really like having the synths running along in realtime so that they can be modified at all times during the process. Secondly I'm actually not sure exactly how to mixdown a project to a stereo track in ardour. Would I have to create a stereo track, connect all tracks output to the new tracks ins, press record and let the entire project play/record in realtime? I was hoping for an "offline" mixdown so that I don't have to 1) connect and 2) wait for 5 mins (provided the song is 5 mins)... Sure, what I meant was that the new track might consist of multiple tracks/takes whatever. Of course music should not be included in this mixdown, only the additional tracks. And in case of more tracks added more files should be generated, each containing what should become one track in ardour. I never heard about that before, looks promising. Will try it out to see if my windows friends can figure out how to use it. Regarding bit depth, I'm not even sure what bit depth/sample rate they use... How much compression can be expected with wavpack? -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk | quintet: http://www.anagrammer.dk | compositions: http://www.atte.dk/compositions