Volker Kuhlmann is on permanent record as saying: :> I'm looking for a Linux app to work on large (300Mb+) Audio files, that can :> do some basic copy'n'paste, playback, mix type stuff... : :Don't we all... this is a bit of a sad story under Linux.
It's starting to come along quite well. If anyone is interested in audio work, check out the Linux Audio Users list: http://www.Linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php3 :Monica reported that cooledit works under wine. It's probably one of :the best you get for billyware. I doubt you find anything for Linux :which offers similar quality of algorithms. There are actually quite a lot of apps available to do really cool editing, control and synthesis. I've been playing with audio work on linux for just over a year, and I have yet to find something that I _couldn't_ do. It has taken a lot of work, and a fair bit of frustration, but it's entirely possible to do the work in linux. check out: http://www.djcj.org http://linux-sound.org :There's sox of course, but it mainly does format conversions. Its :filters I don't think are of high quality, you don't need the effect :stuff, and its UI can only be described as obnoxious. command line app. for format changes, there is not better tool, though. I'd rather not have a gui for something like that. Having the ability to type "sox soundfile.aiff soundfile.wav" is a _lot_ faster than waiting for a gui to load. Some tools are painful as commandline, as you can guess. I'm currently using ecasound to do multitrack recording/mixing on my laptop, which is entirely command line (although there are gui front ends for it, which work quite well) The reason being that my laptop has a couple bios bugs which keep me from acheiving low latency (*grumble* Dell bastards) To tie all this together, a sound demonstration would make a great presentation at one of the LUG meetings. The average person would, IMHO, rather see services and applications than back end stuff. And it sounds as if even the linux faithfuls need a bit of an update. If I had my tower (sold back in Canada when I moved here), I'd be willing to put together a demo. Or maybe in a few months, when I get my dma problems worked out and some extra gear. Greg --- -
