Guest anon Posted April 10, 2003 Report Share Posted April 10, 2003 http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8018846552.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted April 10, 2003 Report Share Posted April 10, 2003 Interesting. Actually Ardour is among the most promising multi-track audio recording and editing applications. However, it's still not finished and very beta in quality. Some other apps to keep a look out over there: I think a new version of Rosegarden is coming out soon. Thac's rpm page Sound section provides most of what you will need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emh Posted April 10, 2003 Report Share Posted April 10, 2003 My only issue with the article is how the guy seems to brush off the importance of the sound card. From my experience recording audio. using on-board audio (which is what he seems to be doing) is not a very good idea. The reason for this is because, with on-board audio, the CPU acts as your sound card, and any sound app puts all of the load on the computer CPU, therefore, not leaving a huge amount of room for multi-track recording. Whereas, if you get an actual PCI sound card with an audio processing unit, you'd be much better off. What this means is that the sound card handles the sound processing, rather than the computer CPU, so it allows for far more audio tracks to be recorded. For example, I had a Philips sound card when I used Windows. I was able to record and playback 16 tracks in full-duplex mode with no problem. (unless I tried to add a large amount of Direct X effects). I have a similar performance with my Soundblaster Live (which has a very powerful audio processing unit), now that I'm using Linux. There was probably room for more tracks, however, I haven't needed to record more than that yet. And my computer specs are merely a 500 Mhz AMD K6-2 processor and 192 MB of RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 Update: #1. Rosegarden-4 0.9 is released! I think they will make 1.0 the first stable release. http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/ Thac's Rosegarden-4 rpm in Sound section for Mandrake 9.1: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.1.html #2. The Fix Is In: Ardour Set For Summer Release! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/05/2346223 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 The latest edition of Linux Journal magazine has a nice article on sound apps. You might want to get out and look at a copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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