On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:13:21PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> I've been considering writing a make-like tool, but would like know if
> something existing fills the role.  I haven't been able to find
> information on using csound for mastering a few sections of audio, but
> maybe that could work...

Not what you want, but using Ardour's automation, gain curves,
etc. combined with the 'export' facility amounts to some form
of scripting. I don't know of any command line tool that would
allow the same.