Paul Davis wrote: > 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
This is my opinion. It's already possible to do what's needed, not only for Ardour. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
