Mike Jewell wrote: > The Ardour web site says "Ardour is not a sound file editor." > > Isn't editing sound files a big part of the process of getting music > from the instrument to the CD? Before using Ardour, I spent lots of > time with Audacity which, though very limited in many of the features > that make Ardour so powerful, is a very powerful and intuitive sound > file editor for many of the basic editing jobs you end up doing after > the musicians have gone home and you are stuck with what you recorded. > For instance, you need to amplify a small section of a track (more than > the 12 dB you can get with Ardour's envelope and mixer gains). Or you > want to apply an effect or plug-in to just a portion of a track. > > First of all, (please correct me if I'm wrong) Ardour says it is trying > to be a Pro-Tools type application but I can't imagine that Pro-Tools > doesn't have built-in sound file editing. > > So what do you folks use and what is your method when you need to do > editing (I assume, outside of Ardour)? I use either Audacity or Rezound for actual editing of sound files. I believe you can configure Ardour to open an application to edit the actual WAV used for a playlist. Ardour doesn't need this capability built-in, I don't think. Let Ardour do what it does best and let Audacity or Rezound do what they do best... and integrating these applications via Jack is the way to go, IMHO! -- Brett ----------- Programmer by day, Guitarist by Night http://www.chapelperilous.net http://www.alhazred.com http://www.revelmoon.com
