Rocco <linuxmedia4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EcasoundMode ^ There's this as well. And this: http://www.notam02.no/notam02/prod-prg-mix.html And this: http://www.music.princeton.edu/winham/PPSK/rthelp.html Which I stole the links to from here: http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/explore.html And Brahms: http://brahms.sourceforge.net/ And there's a couple here: http://apps.kde.com/na/2/browse/Multimedia/Audio?sid=7aa47cd52214a46cfc3d3982cc666c4b&sid=7aa47cd52214a46cfc3d3982cc666c4b {Reviews I've read of Anthem have been pretty good.} I've heard that Broadcast 2000 is really good... You could probably use Cinelerra for the same thing. Main Actor gives you pretty much unlimited tracks, etc...
