28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
10:49 a.m.
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On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:53, Paul Davis wrote:
I'd like to have an easy way to import, say, a snippet of a rehearsal
recording into ardour, to show it to the musician in context of what has
already been recorded. Having the ability to drag-and-drop import mp3 samples
could really speed up my workflow. I work with low quality recordings all the
time and then rework things - that's just my favourite way of doing stuff.
But this is composition and arrangement, not recording actually.
Maybe I shouldn't, but I feel like I always will use low quality material in
early stages of production.
drag in
compressed files and instantly use them without waiting for
them to be uncompressed to wav or fiddling with a cmdline to do this
beforehand.
using either nautilus or konqueror, you can drag-n-drop any non-
compressed file into ardour, in a variety of ways. ardour does not
support drag-n-drop of compressed files for 2 reasons:
a) no appropriate API for reading such files (about to
change as soon as libsndfile offers support for ogg)
b) Ardour is intended to be used for music production in which
quality *matters*. Compressed audio is a temporary
manifestation of a temporary issue: lack of bandwidth
and/or storage space. No serious audio professional
makes music by pasting mp3 samples into their work,
and neither should you. Even if only because if someone
re-mp3's or ogg-encodes your work, it will sound even
more deeply horrible.
You are right on the quality side.
I think not to have mp3 drag-and-drop import is the right decision for most of
the workflows you are designing for. If I had a few thousand euros to spend
on hardware, I wouldn't try to make my point here, maybe.
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