On Thursday 12 June 2008 13:47:32 Jesse Chappell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Ken Restivo: > >> Good call on Ardour; I probably would have had the easiest time working > >> with this file in Ardour. Ardour is sweet. But for just editing one long > >> audio file, it seemed a bit like overkill. Also, I'd be too tempted to > >> overdub onto it, which is a no-no for a live recording :-) > > > > There are actually very good reasons to use ardour for post-processing of > > live-recordings: > > - Its completely non-destructive, even if you slice your 2-hour-file > > into 10-seconds snippets and rearrange them and delete them one-by-one, > > you still don't loose the material. Yes, you should have backups, but who > > knows... - Its _very_ easy to apply mastering effects over the whole > > session. (And with the jamin-control-plugin you can change settings > > between songs.) - And all editing on effects and automation is > > non-destructive too. That is very nice compared to clicking "apply effect > > (silence)", having the computer work for ten minutes and the realize that > > a) its the wrong effect and b) the "create undo" wasn't selected. > > - ardour is definitely not trying to load the whole 2-hour file into > > ram... > > Don't forget the CD markers -> TOC export for creating CDs easily with > Ardour. Works great for live CDs where you want to add track > boundaries with no gaps for disk-at-once burning. Yes, and I use this for making CDs from practices and gigs all the time, but... There are minow issues if your gig is longer than a single CD. I have filed something about this here: http://ardour.org/node/1832 but so far no comment or response. I posted my current workaround here: http://ardour.org/node/1833 If I am being dense here and someone knows of a proper way that ardour can handle this now, I am all ears. > > jlc all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
