On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Tim E. Real <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree. > Automation, especially audio automation, is extremely important. > Some examples: > When recording real musicians playing real instruments, you don't just > record one take, you record several takes, then pick the best one and > use the others to patch up the odd mistakes within the best take. > Without automation, it is impossible to do this. > It is easy to say "just cut and paste the corrected takes into the best take", > but this is not good because you cannot just place the tail end of one > wave up against the beginning of another wave - you will get a 'pop'. > (Advanced apps might do the joining for you, with averaging or filtering). > With audio automation, you do a quick, but not sudden, fade out of the > best take at the correction point, and simultaneously do a quick, > but not sudden, fade in of the corrected take. Then you do the reverse > when the end of the corrected take arrives. > This makes the transitions sound smoother. You can do all of this in Ardour *without* automation. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
