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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Tim E. Real  wrote:
> I disagree.

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> Automation, especially audio automation, is extremely important.

> Some examples:

> When recording real musicians playing real instruments, you don't just

>  record one take, you record several takes, then pick the best one and

>  use the others to patch up the odd mistakes within the best take.

> Without automation, it is impossible to do this.

> It is easy to say "just cut and paste the corrected takes into the best take",

>  but this is not good because you cannot just place the tail end of one

>  wave up against the beginning of another wave - you will get a 'pop'.

> (Advanced apps might do the joining for you, with averaging or filtering).

> With audio automation, you do a quick, but not sudden, fade out of the

>  best take at the correction point, and simultaneously do a quick,

>  but not sudden, fade in of the corrected take. Then you do the reverse

>  when the end of the corrected take arrives.

> This makes the transitions sound smoother.

You can do all of this in Ardour *without* automation.
--p

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