On Friday 13 June 2008 17:29:47 Ken Restivo wrote: > 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. It is extremely easy to do in ardour for a final of 1 CD or less and not bad for more than one CD either. I am finally getting better at this. I wish I had persued these skills a few years ago. Life would have been easier. > > 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 all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
