[ardour-users] [OT] JAMin guidance needed

[Jan Depner]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 04:41, Zachris Trolin wrote:
> fre 2005-11-25 klockan 11:58 -0600 skrev Jan Depner:
> > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 08:26, Zachris Trolin wrote:
> > > fre 2005-11-25 klockan 09:14 -0500 skrev Dave Phillips:
> > > > Greetings:
> > > > 
> > > >   I've been busy working on the tracks I wanted to balance for a CD 
> > > > collection of some of my material. Thanks to the advice I received on 
> > > > this list I'm happy to report that I "got the idea" about using JAMin 
> > > > for my specific needs and I'm now very happy with the results. My needs 
> > > > were quite simple (make all tracks equal in volume), and a few minutes 
> > > > figuring out JAMin's controls were all that was needed to start 
> > > > experimenting. Very cool, now I play my tracks one after the other with 
> > > > no need to adjust the playback volume.
> > > > 
> > > >   Btw, my 800 MHz CPU was not powerful enough to run both Ardour and 
> > > > JAMin at the same time, so I simply saved my stereo mix from Ardour and 
> > > > ran the WAV file through JAMin, recording into ecasound. Worked beautifully.
> > > 
> > > You could try the -i flag for Jamin, which will make it a little less
> > > CPU intensive. 
> > > 
> > 
> >     I wouldn't use the -i flag.  The sound is not anywhere near as good
> > as with the FFT.
> > 
> > 
> My last mail was a bit unclear, what I meant was, use -i for listening
> and then *don't* use -i when exporting in freewheeling mode. That way it
> is possible to both use ardour and jamin (==> automation of scenes) on a
> slow computer.
> 

    Good point.  I never thought of that.


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Jan "Evil Twin" Depner
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