23 Jul
2010
23 Jul
'10
9:26 a.m.
James Warden wrote:
I also agree that Ardour is not *that* hard... You easily fire up a
single-track project really and *big* advantage of having real-time
non-destructive effects and editing, jack and a much better user
experience is worth the little overload. I have used this set up in
several situations and have a couple of 'wave editor' projects in my
home dire just for this.
Otherwies there are various other single-file editors beyond Audacity
already mentioned on this very list many times. Unfortunately as far as
I know none seem to have real-time effects capabilities.
Lorenzo
Up to now
I've run away from using Ardour because it's
severe overkill
for the audio work I do, and has a horrendously steep
learning curve.
Hi there, I never had any DAW experience before ardour nor did I have any
sound "engineering" experience whatsoever. I was just and still am a musician /
composer. I never found ardour "horrendously" difficult to use but maybe, since
you are familiar with audacity, you expect both softwares to provide the same kind of
functionality. If such is your expectation, you will be "disappointed": Ardour
is no sound editor, it's a DAW. Audacity is more an audio editor which happens to have
some multitracking capability. In short, each software has a different purpose.
I rarely use audacity since I am doing multitracking
and DAW work. But to quickly retouch an audio file, I find it convenient. No need of jack
for this. But on my DAW PC, since jack is running all the time, audacity via portaudio is
doing what I expect it to do, namely output sound through jack when its transport is
activated. But I would not integrate it into more complex jack graph setup because of its
portaudio dependence.
Take the time to learn ardour, believe me, the time will be well spent, unless you are
not into DAW work but audio editing.
Cheers!
J.
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