>...sure, but Cool-Edit Professional for windows shows how often a static >mixing [multitrack] environment is used as an intergral part of the overall >editing project - you make a mix of several samples and dump it back in the >editor for further processing. maybe afterwards you send it back to the >multitracker to layer it up with other samples. >sequencing, well that is for a very particular kind of composition. > >syntrillium [producer] obviously recognises that a multitracker should in >fact come with the editor, and does a very fine job of making this work.
except that this is linux, where fork(2) is cheap, and IPC is the most efficient available. what reason is there for requiring a user to use *your* sample editor when your main focus was on multitrack editing and sequencing? why not let the user choose a 3rd party editor? suppose i prefer bias peak to cool edit for sample editing, for example? >in work that i do, for instance [and i am not an exception] , it isn't >uncommon to have 70 or 80 samples open simultaneously in a composition; by >being able to double-click a wave in the multitrack window to take me over >to the waveform where i edit it further [without saving] and then return to yep. just fork snd, or audacity, or gsmp, or sweep, or gnoise, or DAP or whatever you want. the downside is that you don't get non-destructive editing. see, the dedicated waveform editor in your windows tool isn't really doing sound *file* editing, its doing the same kind of non-destructive editing that the rest of the program is doing (i.e. just rearranging playlists). >for this reason the ABC in my country, and several universities are >replacing other professional editing/multitrack packages with Cool-Edit >Pro..it is testimony that there is a wide demand for an editor and >multitracker to be put together in an intuitive relation. the relationship, as you noted, has more to do with "1 click away" than it does with anything else. however, i would agree that it is harder to make them work together if the relationship has to be based around a stored audiofile rather than a playlist/EDL. personally speaking, i might just hack this feature in ardour tonight :) --p
