Thanks, Don. Audacity was *exactly* what I was looking for.
On a related note, though, I was surprised how much tempo drift there
was between the two audio tracks I recorded. I know GPO sometimes
drops frames when it gets overloaded (resulting in an accel. effect),
so I tried splitting the orchestra in four to avoid taxing my poor Mac
mini, but that was even worse. I had imagined that if I just got the
*beginning* of both files aligned, they would stay aligned for the
entire piece, but that was absolutely not the case. In fact, I had to
hand-align practically every entrance. (It's almost like Human
Playback is a little *too* human when it comes to counting multimeasure
rests.)
Long story short, it was an incredible PITA to get everything aligned,
and required hours of trial-and-error hand-tweaking. So I'm *really*
hoping NI get their act together on the Mac side, because this is just
ridiculous. (Unfortunately, the move to MacIntel doesn't exactly give
them a lot of incentive to optimize their PPC code. Sigh.)
- Darcy
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On 24 Jun 2005, at 12:06 AM, Don Hart wrote:
Darcy,
If I have an accurate understanding of what you need and what this
program
will do, Audacity is what you're looking for. I haven't yet needed to
do
what you're doing, but in my time with the program it was very
intuitive.
My experience observing guys use ProTools seemed to help me get around
Audacity. Anyway, you can check it out:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
I was really impressed; I hope it helps.
Don Hart
on 6/23/05 10:17 PM, Darcy James Argue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, it's that time...
I need to make an audio demo of an orchestration I've written. As
those of you who have GPO for Mac know only too well, my 1.42 GHz Mac
mini doesn't have nearly enough horsepower to drive GPO through a
large
orchestral score (3333 / 4331 / Timp+Perc / Harp / Solo Vln /
Strings).
I've done all my usual GPO tricks (*drastically* reduce polyphony on
percussion and harp, bypass reverb, set sample rate to 22.05 KHz), but
I can still only really get half the orchestra to play back reliably
at
any given time. So that's exactly what I did -- soloed half the
orchestra and recorded that to audio file; then soloed the other half
and did the same thing.
Now I need to combine the two audio files in a basic multitrack audio
editor. But I don't currently own a basic multitrack audio editor.
So
-- suggestions? Cheap and simple are best -- my needs are very
modest,
I just need to line up these two files and join them.
- Darcy
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