yOn Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Ricardo Campos wrote:
I have some music on tape that I did years ago. It's recorded in stereo, and in fact, there are lots of stereo effects that I wish to keep.
Ahhh....tape....
I can record it using Grecord into WAV format (my box can handle it), but I would like to mix in some other samples too. Therefore I need a sequencer that can handle LARGE wav files AND retain the stereo information, and play other samples on top (vocals)... THEN it needs to mixdown the result into wav again...
It may seem like the long wya to go about it, but if you really want to do this inLinux, PD is definitely the way to go. Once you resolve ALSA/OSS drivers and so on, you can do all of the above within it. Look for external objects/libraries (especially IEMLib and ggee). Some of the features recently being coded are:
-wav file reading/writing from multiple inputs. -mp3 streaming/writing -ogg vorbis streaming
Apart from this, PD is a programming(visual) environment, so there's really no end to what you could pile on top of your tape tracks if they're already in wav format.
Check: http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software/ <--! The man. The place to get it.
http://www.pure-data.org <--! Most externals listed here.
http://iem.kug.ac.at/pd/ IEM's library of objects for PD (mostly integrated in latest release), the main PD mailing list and archive, plu the PD WIKI.
Soundtracker is out, as it doesn't retain the stereo
settings.
I may be buying a MIDI keyboard sometime soon, so I'm looking at Jazz++. Any thoughts?
Again, PD is MIDI king. But for scoring/editing, maybe brahms.sourceforge.net (with ArTS softsynth) could be nice. KDE based though.
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