Conrad,
Conrad Newton wrote:
Is it [Rezound] in the same category as audacity (a
competitor), or do the two
complement each other? What kind of program is rezound?
Similar to Audacity, but with slightly different features and a much
more impressive GUI. Rezound looks and feels very much like Sound Forge
or the sample-editor part of Cool Edit. This makes it a bit more
familiar to windoze users. I like it better than Audacity because it has
more advanced editing features, and especially because you can scrub
through tracks as if it were a tape-player, and also zoom in to the
sample level.
Downsides of Rezound, however are:
*dubious Jack support [doesn't sound like an issue to you...]
*slightly buggy disk-streaming capabilties which sometimes result in
small audio dropouts... these can manifest themselves during long tracks
when recording to disk, playback or [suprisingly] doing format
conversions [wav to mp3 etc].
Generally, I use Ardour for long takes, and Rezound for chopping up
little pieces of things.
Ian Duncan wrote:
Multiplatform is nice because your students may then
want to experiment at home, but be not quite ready for linux yet.
This isn't so much of an issue if you have a live CD. This gives them
all the time in the world in the safety of their own flats to experiment
in Linux without commitment.
Conrad Newton wrote:
they [Dynebolic] are much less space-constrained than
I am, and therefore do
not have to make the same difficult choices.
What kind of space limitations are you dealing with? A 3" CDR? Just
curious why everything has to be so squeezed when the apps themselves
are so small anyways...
best,
D.
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