On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:45:53AM -0400, Joe Hartley wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:39:27 -0700 (PDT) > Greg Reddin <gtreddin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yeah, my transport just stopped working. I'd press "Play" and the > > play button would highlight, but the cursor wouldn't move and no > > sound would he heard. Then I'd press "Stop" and both play and stop > > buttons were highlighted. By that time, I was too frustrated to try > > and get the problem fixed, so I just imported the raw tracks into > > Audacity and remixed them. > I hate to tell you this... but all that probably happened was that > Ardour lost connection with JACK. Save in Ardour and quit, then > restart JACK and start Ardour again and you probably would have been > right where you left off. (Listens for the distant wail of Ultimate > Suffering </princessbride>) > > IMHO, Ardour makes some choices that make it more > > difficult, at least for someone who is corrupted with a Windows > > background :-) > That's sort of like having to unlearn BASIC before learning a structured > programming language!! > I started using Ardour after a few years of using Windows & n-track. > A big learning curve, but I'm glad I climbed it. maybe this can sheds some light on my amazement with ecasound. I came to linux and ecasound after a few years of using a fairly limited 8-track shareware mixer called soundsculptorII on MacOS 8. As an example of the limits I worked with there, panning could only be set statically for each track, so If I wanted to move something around the stereo field I had to cut and paste bits and pieces into different tracks. By comparison ecasound is beyond comparison. -Eric Rz.
