On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:21 +0200, Jacek M. Holeczek wrote: > Hi, > first, let me say that I'm a complete newbie, what concerns sound editing. > > I've just installed (from cvs) the current Snd (with Guile-1.6.4). > > Here come my "newbie" questions. Sorry about these questions, but after > reading the manual, I still don't know the answers. >
[Snip ... snip .. snip] > > Finally, I need your advice in the following matter. > This is, in principle, what I am really interested in and why I need to > "edit" my sounds. > > In principle, using a Linux machine with a simple soundcard, I would like > to record four independent tracks (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass). Each of > them would be "mono" (1 channel), in separate "wav" files. > Assume now that I synchronized these files adding appropriate "silence" in > the beginning of all of them (different amount for different tracks). > >From these four "independent" mono tracks, I would like to produce a > "stereo" file (2 channels). In "professional live" recordings, you can > actually "hear" that one guy is staying left to you, another one right to > you, and so on ... and this is exactly what I would like to achieve, too. > I would like to "hear" the Soprano most left, Alto left-middle, Tenor > right-middle, Bass most right ... > Being completely new to this business, i have no idea how to achieve it. > Hmm, i wounder whether it might be easier to use a sound recording tool for this task: have you had a look at ardour? With ardour you could do exactly the kind of editing you describe - import WAV data, slice 'n dice and move around and position the channels with a nice graphical GUI. HTH Ralf Mattes P.S: This is not to say that snd can't handle that job, i just feel that ardour would be the more natural choice for this task ... > Could you, please help me, > Thanks in advance, > Best regards, > Jacek. > > _______________________________________________ > Cmdist mailing list > [email protected] > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
