On Mon, November 1, 2010 8:45 am, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:15:28PM +0100, Benjamin Freitag wrote: > >> Which seems to confirm that the normalisation is not applied to >> the mixed signal (which would require two passes or a lot of >> storage) >> >> " >> Nope, Ardour3 offers the option of normalization in the export menu , >> there is a mask where u edit "formats", and there it is(top left) >> And indeed, if you have a machine fast enough, you may also right-click >> a region and "normalize" it while playing, i dont know how its done >> actually, but as ardour has the peaks, it may just search for the >> highest value and internally gain the difference. > > It's still not clear what exactly is happening if you export > 'the mix' i.e. the output of the master strip, including all > plugin processing, automation, etc. This signal normally is > not recorded, there are no peak files for it. The only way to > find the peak value in that case is to perform the entire > process. And only then this output can be normalised, either > by using a stored copy of the output or by doing everything > again. > I noticed that after exporting with normalise enabled the dialog took a while to close after the progress bar reached the end. Whereas when I exported without normalise enabled the dialog closed immediately. Cheers. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. "ZPE is not about creating something from nothing: It is about using the zero point of a wave as a means to transform other forms of potential energy like magnetic flux, heat, or particle spin into usable energy in such a way that entropy appears to be reversed." _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
