Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:40:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: multitrack recording [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...] Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301021232380.19887-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20030102172123.GG5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: <snip> > This is off-topic from the original post, but since you mention that you > do a lot recording to your SBLive I though I would ask. Is there any > good multitrack recording software for FreeBSD. I recently made a > little preamp so that I could plug my guitar into the sound card and am > looking for multitrack recording software. I have waded through the > ports and come across a few possibilities, but each leaves something to > be desired. I found ecasound, audacity, and snd. Audacity is just what > I am looking for, but v1 doesn't support full duplex on *nix. Apparently v1.1 > does, but it is not released as stable yet. ecasound looks powerful, > but it would be nice if it had a graphical interface - well, there is > one, but it's not very intuitive and the documentation is nonexistent, > apparently. snd had an interesting interface, but I can't seem to tell > if it was meant to do what I want, or at least I can't coax it to. I > just want to make multitrack guitar recordings i.e. record one track and > record the next while listening to the first, etc, etc....any ideas? > > Thanks, > Nathan I use Audacity for all of my mixing. I do a lot of the individual track recording to my 4-track, and do the mixing afterwards in Audacity. The lack of full-duplex support in *nix is in the OSS drivers, not Audacity, and it really stinks. I've been thinking of getting a better card (like an RME Hammerfalle) which has full-duplex support with the ALSA drivers, but until my employment situation levels out, that's not gonna happen. In FreeBSD Audacity is the best IMHO. Another great one (much more full-featured) is Ardour, but it seems to be Linux-only and I have no idea what would be required to re-compile it for FreeBSD. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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