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Paul Davis wrote:

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

>

>

>> I disagree.

>> 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

This is my opinion. It's already possible to do what's needed, not only

for Ardour.

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