>However, you hit the nail on the head when you say '...have appropriate gain >and other FX applied....' -- in my experience, determining the appropriate >FX levels and gains, etc, involves lots of test-mixes -- which, at least, CEP >will do a real-time monitor mixdown in multitrack mode. Audio editing, as I >am sure you are aware :-) is not a WYSIWYG or even WYHIWYG enviroment, as >what looks like something that will sound good won't necessarily really sound >good. And an edit/FX/adjustment on one 'clip/region/block' might sound very >good or even great when listened to in single-track edit mode, and sound like >junk in the context of the mix.
What I wrote was intended to describe a situation where FX were applied within the overall mix (multitrack context). Sorry this wasn't clear. >Again, if I could do transparent region editing in the CEP multitrack mode, >with undo stacks allocated per-region, (working on a copy of the original why per-region? what difference does that make? this is *important* to me **right now** ... >audio track file -- but that's a different gripe) I would be in radio >production heaven. Good. Pack your bags. Ardour will take you there in a month or two. >ProTools is pretty close to what I need, but not there yet. CEP is what I >have, though. Sounds to me as though ProTools could do all that you describe. --p
