Hi Darcy,
I think that to solve your problem, you may have to learn a few more
software programs. I think that HP is responsible for your
differences in takes. Audio drift would be much more subtle (phasing
maybe, but not off by whole beats).
I would recommend that you first get a MIDI file of one HP take. Then
put it into a sequencer and divide up your audio lode from there.
Because the split audio parts would be based on the same HP take,
they should line up better.
Many sequencing programs handle the MIDI and the Audio making the job
easier (Logic Express, Digital Performer), but if you want a free,
open source sequencer, you could try PlayerPro:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro
Good luck with this.
-Randolph Peters
At 2:35 AM -0400 6/24/05, Darcy James Argue wrote:
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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