16 Dec
2018
16 Dec
'18
12:24 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 10:08:00PM +0100, hollundertee(a)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