Am 07.02.2011 21:12, schrieb Bearcat M. Sandor:
Folks,
Thanks for all of the replies. Ardour + plug-ins looks like my best best
so far, but i'll check out some of the other options as well. It seems
like a good excuse to learn ardour which i've been meaning to do anyhow.
When i'm playing with this, are there any guide lines that i can keep in
mind to avoid hurting my ears and stereo equipment when i'm playing with
stuff? Just adjust all knobs slowly till i know what they do?
I think this will not be available.
Especially modulation-effects like flangers always have the potential to
produce extreme peaks. If you want to limit the danger to your
ears/hardware, put a capable limiter like foo lookahead limiter in
Ardours Master-track. To be even more secure connect Ardours master-outs
not to your soundcard but to jamin inputs. Then you connect jamin to
your hardware-ports. Jamin has got a brickwall-limiter that justifies
its name ;-)
not strictly necessary - the limiter is also availabe as a ladspa plugin
that can be put into ardour's master bus.
i find either a foolproof analog volume control or a Big Red Switch(tm)
in the immediate vicinity of the keyboard very reassuring.