sound & partitions

[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:31:54AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> I am starting my own business with the blessing of hrdc.

Congrats!  :)

> 3. I could continue to use Pro Tools Free on W98SE for the music
> recording
> part of my business, but I would prefer to do everything in linux. This
> is
> important to the second phase of this business. I'll keep working
> through
> _The BOOK of LINUX MUSIC & SOUND_ by Dave Phillips (no starch press),
> but that means it'll be a year (I'm not being dramatic) before I'm
> recording
> sound in linux. If anyone has done this, I'd love to hear from you.

Depends what exactly you need to do with recording.  AFAIK there is nothing
quite like ProTools for Linux (just as even the GIMP is not quite Photoshop).

For some basic multitrack editing, audacity exists.  For more
extensive multitrack recording, the answer seems to be ecasound.  With
ecasound, I'd suggest getting on the mailing list now, as the syntax can
be daunting (it's a CLI app), and people are always asking questions which
you may be interested in.

And never underestimate the utility of sox and a script.  ;)

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