Pieter Palmers wrote: > Rui Nuno Capela wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@xxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: > > [...] > >>> As for edge dragging, in Acid this allows you to play a portion of a >>> loop. If I place a loop in a session the tempo is adjusted >>> automatically and I hear the whole loop. If I drag the left edge to >>> the right I lose the front part of the loop. If I drag the right edge >>> to the left I lose the last part of the loop. There are ways to drag >>> the loop to an out-of-sync point if you want but I don't use it much, >>> really only for beat slicing where they have better tools in the >>> editor. >>> >> >> when you import (or drop) a new audio file into the qtractor >> time-line, it's always assumed that the new clip is in tempo with the >> current session. if you find it is not the case, you can trim and/or >> (time-)stretch the clip until you see fit. take a tour: > > [...] > > As far as I can remember, the "automagic-ness" of ACID relies on some > sort of extra metadata. I think it was embedded in the WAV file, but it > might have been somewhere else. > > The point is, if there is such metadata in a clip (e.g. wav), why no use > it? Have an option like "strech clip according to tempo metadata" or the > likes. If I remember your LAC presentation correctly, all resampling is > done "on-the-fly" (modulo some cacheing) so isn't is simply initializing > the 'stretch factor' to a proper value? > > 2cents for the masses, > that's a good point indeed. i do remember that Mark has aslo referred to me about the meta-data acid do stuff into wavs, but i'm afraid i've lost the hint at the bottomless qtractor todo list ;) question that occurs to me atm. might be: does libsndfile have the means to read or access that meta-data ? as said, implicitly, i don't nor ever used acid, but it might be of some help if someone would hand out one of the acid-stuffed wavs for me to try? cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
