felix.news@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello! > > I'm looking for the best multitrack for linux. I was used audacity, > and protux. > > I think that ardour is the best [just only reading the features and > watching screenshots] but I have a problem with jackd. I was working with ardour and it looked really good. But then I kept running into problems with Jack also. So I went back to using ecasound. It's a command line multitrack recorder, but does a lot more, (like fx, file conversions, ladspa plugins...). I plan on getting Jack running some day. But for now, I can do everything I need with ecasound. It's very stable and powerful. And there's a very good Front End called "tkeca". But I would wait for the next version of tkeca because the developer said that He will be working on fixing some bugs and/or adding certain features. But the last version of tkeca was promising. But if you don't mind a command line multitracker go with ecasound. I recomend using the "-c" option. It puts it in "interactive mode" so that You can do "t" to start, "fw xx" to fast forward xx seconds, "setpos xx" to seek to xx seconds into the recording (just to name a few). By the way, if you use Midnight Commander (file utility program), ecasound becomes much easier to work with because you can create a bash script with all of the ecasound settings in it and press enter to run it. then You can press F4 on the file and make changes with the Midnight Commander's internal editor and and then simply press enter on the script file to run it again. You can use Midinight Commander's ablity to reconize a file type and configure it to use ecasound to play a wav, mp3 or whatever file format you're using, so You can quickly view a single track if nesesary. ecasound also has a few of it's own file formats that you can use along with Midnight Commander also for "quick viewing" or testing of things. I found this set up to be a quick way to make changes, view things quickly and record quickly and efficiently. type "mc" into the bash shell to see if you have Midinight Commander installed. Rocco
