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Hartmut Noack wrote:

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> Am 11.06.2010 08:23, schrieb Joep L. Blom:

>> Joel Roth wrote:

>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Greg wrote:

>>>> Hi all, I was wondering if you knew of a good alternative to Audacity.

>

>> I discovered 2 days ago qtractor and I think that does the things you

>> want.

>

> Qtractor is a powerful, very nice MII-Sequencer with good

> Audio-capabilities but it is NOT the obvious choice, if you want to

> replace Audacity.

>

> I also recommend MHWaveedit. For day-to-day audiocutting and even as an

> advanced wave-fileplayer. (And I have not seen a crash with it in the

> last 2 or-so years).

> SND is very cool for experiments with sounds derived from recordings but

> its learning-curve is steep if you want to use it for simple stuff.

> Si I like SND for granular-synthesis, extreme time-strecheffects,

> realtime-effects for small samples and so on but MHW is better for

> simple editing.

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Hartmut,

You suggested mwaveedit and, as I'm rather new, I loaded it using

synaptic (ubuntu Karmic 9.10) it installed without problems and it

loaded rather fast.

However, my first impression is that for the task I want to perform

mixing 4 tracks recorded from 2 piano's,(2 recorded with 2 microphones

and 2 from the output of an E-piano), the view of qtractor where all

channels can be combined together is easier than 4 separate windows,

although it  seems much easier to change the presentation of each

channel individually in mwaveedit.

Primarily I'm musician (former computer-'expert', programming  in

various languages) and not at all familiar with the 'language' used in

the digital audio world. So I have to get to know what the LADSPA

filternames mean as the names has no meaning to me. But at the moment my

  most pressing problem is the fact that I get lots of XRUN errors which

clip the sound so a notmal mix cannot be made. I cannot understand why

this should happen as I have an AMD Phenom II (4-core) processor so I

assume more than sufficient computing power: I have it as well in

qtractor as in mwaveedit.

If somebody can give some clues what to change I would be very grateful.

I use the plain Karmic kernel with no extra sound modules. Stopping

pulsaudio (pulseaudio -k) doesn't make any difference.

Thanks in advance,

Joep

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