On Saturday 06 March 2010 20:24:07 sajan venniyoor wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok. From the response one can conclude two points > > 1) Closed formats > > 2) The consultant is sticking to a single tool when he has > > undefined jobs. > > 3) The consultant does not understand the real issues of audio > > processing using computers. > > 4) This requirement is not for professional high definition audio > > recording, - the type you would have in a SciFi movie or a modern > > heavy metal band - but the usual government ration bhashan > > editing. > > Not sure if this is a simple Audacity Vs. Audition face-off. We've > been using Audacity for community radio broadcasting for a long > time now, and it's a great tool for most purposes (except, as you > say, if one is doing an SF movie or recording a heavy metal > band...)
I did not say that ardour is not for real pro stuff. It will work equally well there but the rest of the hardware and the os has to match. So you need a fast machine, very very good soundcard, two of them if you want many channels, very good recording mics and rooms etc. > > A couple of years ago, I put together a list of FOSS tools for > audio editing and play-out, and it looked something like this. Most > of it should be available even now, some in later versions as well. Also the cli tools like sox and ffmpeg for his batch jobs. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
