Actually, all of the developers of JAMIN use Ardour. It's not designed for mastering which is why Steve came up with the idea of building a mastering tool. Jan On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 06:22, khad wrote: > Have you try `ardour', I think it is good enough for audio mastering... > > R Parker wrote: > > --- Daniel James <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>>I'm doing a study on audio mastering. Hopefully > >> > >>this > >> > >>>letter will generate some correspondance from > >> > >>which > >> > >>>I'll learn enough to augment a GFDL licensed > >> > >>document > >> > >>>that I've been working on. > >> > >>I look forward to reading that. Mastering is a > >>mystery to me, > > > > > > I've noticed that audio mastering is a mystery to many > > musicians and engineers. If using a well designed > > tool, the mystery will evaporate. And yes, that is > > contrary to what most of us have heard during our > > careers but I stand by the claims that A, mastering is > > easy and B, digital audio mastering produces great > > results. > > > > There is a linux mastering tool. It hasn't been > > announced yet because it's in an alpha stage of > > development which is why I didn't mention the > > application name in the original letter. But the cat > > is out of the bag, see jamin.sourceforge.net. > > > > Hope you like JAMIN too, > > > > ron > > > > so I've > > > >>just sent off for a book called Mastering Audio - > >>the Art and the > >>Science by Bob Katz. Are there any other titles that > >>list members > >>could recommend on the subject? > >> > >>I know there are specialist mastering applications > >>on other platforms, > >>but what are the options on Linux? I know Audacity > >>has recently added > >>a gui compressor, and Glame used to have a great > >>normalisation tool. > >>Plus there's quite a few relevant LADSPA plugins - I > >>know Steve > >>Harris was working on a mastering toolkit. > >> > >>It seems to me we've got all the elements there, but > >>they haven't > >>really been drawn together specifically for > >>mastering yet. I'm just > >>compiling Glame 1.0 now to see what that's like. > >> > >>Cheers > >> > >>Daniel > >