On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:28:49AM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello1 > Well there are a few reasons - nowadays -, why you would need > visual feedbacks. I'm thinking of alligning audio to other audio and > a metronome/clicktrack. If you need that in "perfect" sync and have > acoustic instruments - i.e. nothing, that you can sequence -, then a > visual feedback is the way to go. Another one of course is things Certainly, graphically representing sound on a timeline is a convenient way of handling this and manipulating time itself, but I feel there ought to be another way to represent it, but people have not looked hard enough. There always is a risk to stay locked in a paradigm if one accepts conventional ways of thinking about certain concepts. Admitedly, I'm waxing a little philosophical here. :) > like graphic multiband EQ, where you are looking for fine peaks at > exact frequencies - well as fine as the output can be. Still, I can > handle a four band EQ and possibly a ten band EQ, but beyond that... > I suppose it's possible, but seeing the things people have in mind > for these, visual or other analytic feedback is very helpful. Though I wonder how useful it truly is, apart from certain specialised purposes. You can hear a lot of great mixes from the seventies when this technology was unavailable. In fact, they're often more pleasing (to my ears anyway) than a lot of the over-polished mixes one hears today. > I thought about such things quite a bit. But all the good > solutions I came up with are very case specific or just not realtime > at all, which makes it very useable, but a pain in the ass for all > the people, that can have it otherwise. I've mused along similar lines and come to similar conclusions; but, as I said above, I sometimes wonder whether the mistake is not in trying to translate the way people are doing things to a non-visual way, rather than coming up with an entirely new approach. Cheers, S.M. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
