Re: audacity alternative?

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Hartmut Noack wrote:
Am 11.06.2010 08:23, schrieb Joep L. Blom:
Joel Roth wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Greg wrote:
Hi all, I was wondering if you knew of a good alternative to Audacity.

I discovered 2 days ago qtractor and I think that does the things you
want.

Qtractor is a powerful, very nice MII-Sequencer with good Audio-capabilities but it is NOT the obvious choice, if you want to replace Audacity.

I also recommend MHWaveedit. For day-to-day audiocutting and even as an advanced wave-fileplayer. (And I have not seen a crash with it in the last 2 or-so years). SND is very cool for experiments with sounds derived from recordings but its learning-curve is steep if you want to use it for simple stuff. Si I like SND for granular-synthesis, extreme time-strecheffects, realtime-effects for small samples and so on but MHW is better for simple editing.

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Hartmut,
You suggested mwaveedit and, as I'm rather new, I loaded it using synaptic (ubuntu Karmic 9.10) it installed without problems and it loaded rather fast. However, my first impression is that for the task I want to perform mixing 4 tracks recorded from 2 piano's,(2 recorded with 2 microphones and 2 from the output of an E-piano), the view of qtractor where all channels can be combined together is easier than 4 separate windows, although it seems much easier to change the presentation of each channel individually in mwaveedit. Primarily I'm musician (former computer-'expert', programming in various languages) and not at all familiar with the 'language' used in the digital audio world. So I have to get to know what the LADSPA filternames mean as the names has no meaning to me. But at the moment my most pressing problem is the fact that I get lots of XRUN errors which clip the sound so a notmal mix cannot be made. I cannot understand why this should happen as I have an AMD Phenom II (4-core) processor so I assume more than sufficient computing power: I have it as well in qtractor as in mwaveedit. If somebody can give some clues what to change I would be very grateful. I use the plain Karmic kernel with no extra sound modules. Stopping pulsaudio (pulseaudio -k) doesn't make any difference.
Thanks in advance,
Joep
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