[ardour-users] Newbie help with dynamics in Ardour...

[Sampo Savolainen]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 13:02 -0400, kannoll wrote:
> 
> Okay, I've succesfully used Jamin to do some of the dynamics 
> processing that I was attempting.
>
> Now I want to make sense out of why I seem to have to use
> Jamin to get the output that I want. 

Well .. Jamin is good for limiting and all sorts of post processing.  :)

> I'm working with a single track of spoken voice. Shouldn't I 
> be able to use a LADSPA limiter and/or compressor inside ardour
> to cut out the pops and adjust the dynamics?

Yes.

> In trying to figure this out, I've limited (no pun intended)
> my trial-and-error research to trying to cut the pops from the
> audio using the various LADSPA limiters that are available.
> 
> Some of them just don't make sense as far as their configuration,
> and others I can get to work... sort of. I can get the output
> audio to sound correct, but what is recorded to the output track
> does not have the limited output.

You need to go to options and set "run plugins while recording" on, to
make plugins run while you are recording.

On the other hand though, when you're done with a project so that you
want the output "out" from ardour you should do an "export". By
exporting you can set a number of parameters for the output file.

-- 
Sampo Savolainen <v2 at iki.fi>