22 Sep
2008
22 Sep
'08
10:48 p.m.
I am helping to (hopefully) produce a CD of one of the bands I'm in. The recording and
mixing has been done on ProTools on a Mac, but it's been suggested that we "get
it mastered". Before we spend money we don't have on some mastering house,
I'd like to take the WAV files of the scratch mixes we have, feed them through Jamin,
and see if the result is satisfactory.
I'm certain I could write this, but I don't want to if it's already been done.
So, is there a command line tool out there that will take a WAV file as an input, put JACK
into freeswheeling mode, then jack_connect to a running Jamin instance's stereo in and
out ports, open a WAV file for capturing the output, feed the input WAV file in to JAMIN
and at the same time start capturing samples for the output WAV file, and thus basically
feed this through JAMIN as fast as it can and give me a finished WAV file that's been
"mastered"?
I tried scripting this with jack_capture and mplayer, but there are two problems. The
first problem is the mplayer starts playing before I can connect its output ports to
JAMIN's input ports. The second problem is that jack_capture starts capturing long
before mplayer is started, and then doesn't stop until long after mplayer is done,
which gives me a bunch of silence at the beginning and end of the capture file, which is
annoying and has to be cut out manually in some kind of audio editor later on.
-ken
22 Sep
22 Sep
10:52 p.m.
Any particular reason you wouldn't just run Ardour, load in your files,
patch it into Jamin, and take a listen?
I can't think of a command line program sorry, just wanted to make sure you
realized this could be done on a Mac(Which I am fairly sure you did and this
is probably useless noise).
Seablade
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
I am helping to (hopefully) produce a CD of one of the
bands I'm in. The
recording and mixing has been done on ProTools on a Mac, but it's been
suggested that we "get it mastered". Before we spend money we don't have
on
some mastering house, I'd like to take the WAV files of the scratch mixes we
have, feed them through Jamin, and see if the result is satisfactory.
I'm certain I could write this, but I don't want to if it's already been
done. So, is there a command line tool out there that will take a WAV file
as an input, put JACK into freeswheeling mode, then jack_connect to a
running Jamin instance's stereo in and out ports, open a WAV file for
capturing the output, feed the input WAV file in to JAMIN and at the same
time start capturing samples for the output WAV file, and thus basically
feed this through JAMIN as fast as it can and give me a finished WAV file
that's been "mastered"?
I tried scripting this with jack_capture and mplayer, but there are two
problems. The first problem is the mplayer starts playing before I can
connect its output ports to JAMIN's input ports. The second problem is that
jack_capture starts capturing long before mplayer is started, and then
doesn't stop until long after mplayer is done, which gives me a bunch of
silence at the beginning and end of the capture file, which is annoying and
has to be cut out manually in some kind of audio editor later on.
-ken
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For a bunch of WAV files that have already been mixed, I was trying to avoid the
clickydragging and wait time to import them all into Ardour and then make markers for
them, then export the markers again.
I'm looking for something I can do this with:
ls *wav | while read i; do jamin-batch "$i"; done
It's not my Mac and I can't go installing Ardour, JAMIN, and JACK on it. It's
also an old PPC Mac and my Linux box has much more CPU than it, so I'd rather do it
here.
-ken
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:52:21PM -0400, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
Any particular reason you wouldn't just run
Ardour, load in your files,
patch it into Jamin, and take a listen?
I can't think of a command line program sorry, just wanted to make sure you
realized this could be done on a Mac(Which I am fairly sure you did and this
is probably useless noise).
Seablade
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
> I am helping to (hopefully) produce a CD of one of the bands I'm in. The
> recording and mixing has been done on ProTools on a Mac, but it's been
> suggested that we "get it mastered". Before we spend money we don't
have on
> some mastering house, I'd like to take the WAV files of the scratch mixes we
> have, feed them through Jamin, and see if the result is satisfactory.
>
> I'm certain I could write this, but I don't want to if it's already
been
> done. So, is there a command line tool out there that will take a WAV file
> as an input, put JACK into freeswheeling mode, then jack_connect to a
> running Jamin instance's stereo in and out ports, open a WAV file for
> capturing the output, feed the input WAV file in to JAMIN and at the same
> time start capturing samples for the output WAV file, and thus basically
> feed this through JAMIN as fast as it can and give me a finished WAV file
> that's been "mastered"?
>
> I tried scripting this with jack_capture and mplayer, but there are two
> problems. The first problem is the mplayer starts playing before I can
> connect its output ports to JAMIN's input ports. The second problem is that
> jack_capture starts capturing long before mplayer is started, and then
> doesn't stop until long after mplayer is done, which gives me a bunch of
> silence at the beginning and end of the capture file, which is annoying and
> has to be cut out manually in some kind of audio editor later on.
>
> -ken
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23 Sep
23 Sep
4:23 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 schrieb Ken Restivo:
For a bunch of WAV files that have already been mixed,
I was trying to
avoid the clickydragging and wait time to import them all into Ardour and
then make markers for them, then export the markers again.
The thing is that when you import the all the files of the whole cd into
ardour and do the jamin-mastering there, you can have:
a) searching/skipping during the rehearsal of the mastering,
b) automation of the jamin-scenes between songs (to make them all sound
similar you might need different jamin-settings on different songs),
c) song-markers that get exported directly to the cd-master.
When doing the export from ardour (feeding trough jamin) and exporting the
toc-file as well, you can directly create the master for the cd-manufacturer.
I don't think that is possible with command-line-batch-processing... at least
not that easy.
Oh, and plan to spend several evenings when you master the whole cd...
Have fun,
Arnold
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24 Sep
6:17 p.m.
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Ken Restivo schrieb:
For a bunch of WAV files that have already been mixed,
I was trying to avoid the clickydragging
and wait time to import them all into Ardour ...
You dont need Ardour to do this, just install MHwaveedit, start up jack,
open your file in mhw, connect mhw to jamin, connect Jamin to qarecord
or whatever mini-recorder you like to use and start mastering.
If you want to do this as a batch-job, this would do everything
automatically but is this the way to get a top-notch master?
I mean - you need to adjust jamin to be just perfect for every given
track - how would you do that if transport etc is controlled by a script?
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22 Sep
22 Sep
11:24 p.m.
Sorry for the noise. This appears to do what I want:
ecasound -a:1 -i "inputfile.wav" -o jack_auto,jamin -a:2 -i jack_auto,jamin -o
outputfile-mastered.wav
Although it doesn't do it in freewheeling mode, it at least does the job. Yay
ecasound!
-ken
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