Hints and Tricks

I know this has probably already been discussed before, maybe over a thousand times....

Now that I am almost ready to start recording (moving from the composition stage) I need a little help from the experienced users with this subject or those who are real audiophiles who can perceive maybe spiritual voices.

I have seen and heard a lot that you should just record @ 24 bit/44.1 simply because "It's all just going to end up on CD anyway", and that doesn't really justify much to me.

With all the things that a multi-tasking operating system does, I wonder if the conversation has been beating (like a dead horse) or if there are some common sense things to turn off (and change/tweak) during Ardour+Jack usage?

I know this is a little off topic for this section but I was wondering, what projects are you guys working on with ardour? Right now I'm doing a singer songwriter album for a friend, and right before that, I did a project that was a christmas cd for a undergrad students family. Note she is a vocalist, but not in the school of music at my college. She needed a lot of melodyne in here vocal tracks before they were good enough to be mixed, and produce a high quality song... But what are the rest of you guys doing with ardour these days?

Ever wanted to control Ardour using a little python script?
So that you dont have to click Play & stop, but can use your
Arduino, or maybe a MIDI device? Or if your just in the mood
for some Python fun, and wouldnt mind making something useful
to youself, here's the PyArdour library.

There's a class in the library, which will communicate with Ardour
via OSC, and only depends on liblo. (Which you will have since
your running ardour.. ;-)

PyLiblo is the python bindings for Liblo, which will need to be
found/installed/compiled/whatever depending on your setup.

does anyone know of a bitscope plugin (LADSPA or LV2)?
or are there plans to incorporate something like this into Ardour?

I'm rather new to the use of any DAW and sound designing/engineering in general. I was wondering if there was any decent text that any of you know of off the top of your head that i might be able to delve in to :)

Thanks for the help

Frank

p.s. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

i'm using a Shure x2u USB connection. it records but after you play it back you notice skips in the recording. can anyone help? i've gone to other forums and read some feed back but the microphone i use is pretty good.

please help.

Acratus

Hi,

I would love to see a (video) tutorial about automation in Ardour

So if you have experience with automation and can make a (video) tutorial, it would be great!

Hi,

I like toms to sound like in Nina Hagen's African reggae tune, and try to have it with flanger, but result is not good...

Somebody have a tip maybe ??

Thanks,

Fred

As a reply to another guy in the How To subforum, I described how one can use snapshots in a useful way in the context of album compositions, i.e. working on a consistent set of songs that will make it into an album.

http://ardour.org/node/2085#comment-14294