On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:55:31PM +0100, Daniel James wrote: > > You need to be able to preview in realtime > > I meant there probably isn't a need for hard realtime, ie neglible > latency. There's always going to be some latency with a preview, if > you're making a copy of the original audio to mangle, isn't there? In theory there doesn't have to be any, but in practice the processing done in master intruduces quite a lot, up to 1/2 a second or so. > > Ardour doesn't really have the tools you need: very accurate meters > > and (arguably) linear filters. > > Does Jamin use the meters from the jack meterbridge, or does it have > it's own? It has its own, the're peak meters. It should have a set of stereo phase meters too, but I've not written the code yet. > It seems in the pro audio world there are specialist tools for > mastering jobs, so this seperate app approach seems reasonable here. > However, this could be a historical consequence of the fact that a > mastering engineer is a different person from the recording engineer. No, the requirements are actually different, youre prepared to burn a lot of cycles because its (historically) the only DSP process running and as you said before the latency doesn't matter, so you can give the limiters a decent lookahead time and use phase corrected filters (which have a much higher peak latency). > Maybe mastering engineers are just ex-recording engineers who prefer > not to deal directly with musician's egos any more. maybe ;) - Steve
