Re: [LAU] Linux programs for creatiing/manipulating sound effects

Hartmut Noack wrote: > Am 08.02.2011 09:15, schrieb david: >> Hartmut Noack wrote: >>> Am 08.02.2011 08:35, schrieb david: >>>> Robin Gareus wrote: >>>>> Hi Mike, >>>>> >>>>> On 02/07/2011 04:40 PM, Mike Cookson wrote: >>>>>> For non-realtime (including non-linear, like montage) processing you >>>>>> need only plugins (ladspa, lv2, vamp) and some editor like Audacity, >>>>>> mhWaveEdit or something other. >>>>>> >>>>>> For realtime (also called >>>>>> non-destructive editing... hm, probably, they are right :) you need >>>>>> set of various software, that could be used at one time and be >>>>>> connected each to other). >>>>> real-time effects processing and non-destructive editing often go hand >>>>> in hand, but note that >>>>> >>>>> "non-destructive" means that the original [audio] data will never be >>>>> modified. Any edit/effect/modifications are saved as new files (or >>>>> remebered as application-settings operating on the original data). >>>>> >>>>> audio-editors (rezound, audacity, sweep, etc) are usually destructive: >>>>> load file, apply effect, save file -> original file is gone. >>>> Audacity is import audio file, apply effect, save project (optional), >>>> export in chosen format. It never replaces the original file. >>> So there is a major dfference between audiofiles, you have imported >>> and audiofiles, you have recorded with audacity -- correct? >> No, I never have. I usually use JACK, and have never been able to make >> Audacity work with JACK. I've only done the following things with >> Audacity: >> >> 1. Import 16 tracks of 32-bit WAV files (recorded on another machine >> from my church band's Firewire interface using some Windows software) >> and do basic mixing. >> >> 2. Trim and cleanup voice audio recordings made on my PDA. >> >> 3. Trim and convert wave files recorded using jack_capture. >> >> 4. Pitch shift prerecorded MP3s if needed for band members who play >> solely by ear (if the recording's in Eb and we're playing it in D, >> they're lost). >> >> If you have the time and brains needed to learn Ardour, go for it! >> > I think it is a myth, that Ardour is too complicated to learn for a > beginner. Perhaps it's a myth for others. I responded only from my own experience. There are plenty of folk here who use Ardour and do wonderful things with it. Advanced features? I couldn't tell an advanced feature from a basic feature. I couldn't even figure out to simply record anything with it, and Ardour's "automagic" setup didn't seem to include that connection. No insult to Ardour, I'm no audio techno whiz. I figured I'd wait til Ardour 3 is released and I have the time to learn it.