--- Steve D <groups@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:32:42AM -0800, R Parker > wrote: > > Punchins aren't illegal and anyone can engineer > for > > you in a non-destructive DAW like Ardour. If you > don't > > tell anyone about the punchin then you can move on > to > > composing and producing another song which makes > > everybody happy. :) > > > > ron > --- --- > > I guess my (irrational) fear is that a > punchin/punchout will somehow be > obvious to the listener--that either there will be > an abrupt momentary > change in ambience, an abrupt cutting off of > pre-punchin sound as the > punchin occurs, or I'll be in a slightly different > mood and the volume > or performance won't match, etc. There's not irrational fear in this. We definitely hear "bad" punches. It's something you get good at; play along with yourself, perform the puch-in and punch-out then stop playing. Afterwards trim the region in and outs so the punch can't be heard. And start working on the new song. :) I have been able (I > think) to hear > punchins in old analog tape recordings, of Van > Cliburn playing the > Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov piano concertos, of an > obscure (but good) > eastern European orchestra playing Stravinsky's > Firebird (there were > *lots* of punchins, some of them very obvious and > awkward, in that > recording), and so my listening experience has made > me wary of punchins. > But, like I mentioned, I'm sure it is an irrational > fear. ;-) > > During this recording (for Arabesque 1), I made a > strong note to myself > after recording take after take (dozens of them) to > learn about and > begin to try punchin techniques. I'm especially > interested to learn > whether Ardour automatically creates (or can be > configured to do so) > brief overlapping fadeouts/fadeins at punch points. > I'm sure that this > information is in the (as yet not fully read) Ardour > online manual. ;-) > In fact, I think I'll check that out right now-- Autopunch works. I manually punch everything so how it works remains a mystery to me but playing along, punching before and after shouldn't be a challange. ron > -sd > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > History from a 10 year old: "Beethoven wrote music > even though > he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music > and became > the father of rock and roll. He took long walks in > the forest > even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven > expired in > 1827 and later died for this." > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
