Mehmet Okonsar wrote: >3-is there a Vegas alternative with audio and video multitrack effects >etc..? > > Nothing that I know of is of the same caliber as Vegas. It'd be nice to get this running on linux. >4-how any reverb, dynamic processing and EQ plugins in Linux compare with >the most professional (i.e. expensive) audio plugins? How one can compare >them with the acoustic modeling reverb, "Ozone" suite of mastering tools, >"Waves" mastering tools and dithering? > > I use Waves plugins quite a bit, and I haven't found anything quite extensive - or I should as deep within each plugin - on linux. But, there are plugins that you can use. Here's some places to get started looking: LADSPA - For more about LADSPA: http://www.ladspa.org/ - http://plugin.org.uk/ - http://quitte.de/dsp/pvoc.html - http://users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio/ See Dave's nice writeup: http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/02/02/ladspa.html Some have been able to get VST plugins to work in Linux. Some work ok, some not at all. To me, it seems a bit of a black art to get it working... though I have in a limited way. Others can tell you more. See: http://www.djcj.org/LAU/ladspavst/ See Dave's tutorial here: http://www.djcj.org/LAU/quicktoots/toots/vst-plugins/ >If anyone has experience in Windows-Mac audio mastering and Linux I'll be >grateful to read his-hers thoughts and comparisons. Thanks in advance. > > for mastering, check out jamin: http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html In general, the quantity and quality of Linux audio apps are far below the professional apps found on win and mac. That said, there are a few that are pretty good - like ardour, snd, rosegarden, jamin, ecasound, jack (not an app per se, but should be mentioned). Another important note is that what comes with these apps is linux. That may sound somewhat backwards, but I'll give you an example. I had problems with SoundForge's new batch converter in v8.0 (I went around and around with Sony support. And, after 2 weeks, they finally admitted it was a bug in their code.) In the meantime, I found some plugins that would do the job - not as good as waves, but adequate for what I was doing. I wrote a bash script to process the files and delivered to client. Worked out fine. To do something like this on windows would be tough -- simply because many win apps don't also run in command line mode. No problem on linux. Good luck. -- Brad Fuller (408) 799-6124 ** Sonaural Audio Studios ** (408) 799-6123 West San Jose (408) 799-6124 Cambrian ________________________________ Hear us online: www.Sonaural.com
