Thanks for the informative text Dan! Am 10.09.2012 21:47, schrieb Dan MacDonald: > > the full-on icon overload of Rosegarden. While I agree that in terms of aesthetics RG is not the crown of creation I still think, that it is better to have a lot of icons to handle a lot of functionality than to be confronted with a good-looking concept of a UI-designer who actually believes, he/she knows what I want to do and how in any "reasonable" scenario ;-) > A3 also currently lacks the ability > to set gradual changes in tempo Well, that is not quite correct. Yo can set as many tempo-changes as needed for gradual changes resolution only limited by BPM-ticks. This method can be a bit crummy if you want to slide tempo frequently in a track but it is in fact working OK. The only thing one could miss regarding tempo in A3 would be some "swing/humanize" automagic I'd say... > > Enough about MIDI, what about audio? Reading the Ardour forums and > having spent much time in its irc channel, I know that one of the most > frequent feature requests is integrated wave editing To be frank: I do not understand, why this feature seems to be in so big need for some Ardour users. The non-destructive editing in A3s regions easily competes with any wave-editor not only in the Linux-camp. Export/consolidation-automatisms add a lot of the feel of a destructive editor too. In a word: I use A3 as my main wave-editor already whenever I need more than just a fast cut of a fieldrecording. The only editors I also really use are MHWaveedit (unbeatable lean and stable) and yeah... well forget... ;-) > and I'm sure Rui > has had more than a few requests for such a feature in qtractor too so > I'd say one of the biggest selling points of MusE is that it would > seem to be the only Linux DAW to offer integrated audio editing. really? To be frank once more: the audiotracks of both Muse and RG are 1995 at best. And I did not see big progress in that field in both in many years. Though Robert himself makes great recording of hand-played music with Muse I still think that the audiotracks in Muse are barely usable. Try to cut regions and loop them, try to cut and arrange some 12-16 tracks as it can be easily done in Qtractor and the same as easy and with even much more extra-powers in Ardour. Anybody remembering Audioheads Orion back in 2001 or so? I do not see much more regarding audiotracks in Muse and RG. best regards HZN > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user