> Hartmut Noack wrote:
>> 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