On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:47:32PM -0400, 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. > That's it. Next time I will use Ardour. It would be very nice to split a 90-minute liveset up into multiple, song-length WAV's, but it was too much hassle to do that in Audacity. I suspect it'd be very easy to do in Ardour. I ended up using Audacity, and ended up with two huge files: http://www.archive.org/details/AudioBrailleLive-2008-05-12 In FLAC format for your high-fidelity enjoyment. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
