On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:28:59PM -0500, Chris Pickett wrote: > Hi, > > I've been wondering: what is it like processing audio offline under > Linux? Is this something that is widely supported? I did a bunch of > google searches using the term "offline" but couldn't find anything > really useful. > > My computer is fairly weak (800 MHz laptop, no DSP card). Currently, if > I want to process a file (apply effects, change the sample rate, apply > dithering, mix it with another file, etc. etc.), I get the best results > / greatest efficiency if I do disk bounces that don't require real-time > processing. Steinberg seem to be very proud that they now support this, > which suggests that it isn't the norm, at least under Windows (I don't > think Logic ever supported it under Windows). I believe Ardour now supports track "freezing" - i.e. writing all mixing & plugins for a track to disk. I haven't tried it yet. > I'm also curious if there's general support to process MIDI offline as > well, but that's not so critical to me, since the computations are far > less intense. some options here... TiMidity, csound. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's WONDER MULE OF INDONESIA! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
