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Ardour 5.9 released

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Re: Ardour 5.9 released

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Post by ristic »

karlgrz wrote: post #14
dvirsky wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used it for recording music, combining some MIDI tracks with many audio tracks and samples. Once the audio system was set up and stable, working with Ardour was a pleasure and results were very good. The main problem was getting high quality effects/plugins, paid or free. There are a couple, but in general life is much easier in this sense outside of Linux. That was 2-3 years ago, and hopefully things have impro…

The CALF Plugins are pretty excellent, for the most part. Those are free (as in beer and as in speech, IIRC). http://calf-studio-gear.org/

Unfortunately, the CALF series have been notorious for having problems or causing crashes in the past. If you do want to try it out, I highly recommend getting the latest version or building from git as a lot of distributions package an older version in their repositories.

Re: Ardour 5.9 released

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Post by daledavies »

mmjaa wrote: post #8
jstapels wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's trying to make his audio easier to listen to by using various effects provided by Ardour. The most significant of what he listed is the compressor, which is great for spoken podcasts. It will take any sound that is over a certain threshold and start to to reduce it's volume (eg. compress it), so if he's talking really quietly and then yells something really loud, the person listening isn't subjected to as large…

After comp/limit, a little expander can make the audio less dull sounding.

I'm not sure I understand the point of using an expander after a compressor as one reduces the dynamic range but the other increases it again. What about a little eq cut/boost instead?

Re: Ardour 5.9 released

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Post by dvirsky »

ristic wrote: post #41
karlgrz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CALF Plugins are pretty excellent, for the most part. Those are free (as in beer and as in speech, IIRC). http://calf-studio-gear.org/

Unfortunately, the CALF series have been notorious for having problems or causing crashes in the past. If you do want to try it out, I highly recommend getting the latest version or building from git as a lot of distributions package an older version in their repositories.

I actually didn't experience that issue.

Re: Ardour 5.9 released

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Post by mmjaa »

daledavies wrote: post #42
mmjaa wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After comp/limit, a little expander can make the audio less dull sounding.

I'm not sure I understand the point of using an expander after a compressor as one reduces the dynamic range but the other increases it again. What about a little eq cut/boost instead?

There are all sorts of reasons to use an expander after compression/limiting:

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/...

Re: Ardour 5.9 released

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Post by daledavies »

mmjaa wrote: post #44
daledavies wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I understand the point of using an expander after a compressor as one reduces the dynamic range but the other increases it again. What about a little eq cut/boost instead?

There are all sorts of reasons to use an expander after compression/limiting: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/...

Sorry I still don't get it. That thread explains some uses for expanders, just not after compressor or limiters in the same effects chain. Surely if you need an expander after a compressor then you've got your setting wrong on the compressor, or maybe you need a noise gate before it.

Re: Ardour 5.9 released

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Post by spacemanmatt »

pmoriarty wrote: post #35
spacemanmatt wrote: post #29

I bought Ableton years ago after trying really hard to tame JACK, Ardour, Hydrogen, and a handful of associated utilities unsuccessfully. It makes me REALLY happy to see this community still going. I know it takes time but the results are usually well worth-it, to get open software ecosystems thriving.

There are some Linux distros, like AVLinux[1], which do all the heavy lifting for you. Just boot in to them and you've got Ardour, JACK, Hydrogen, and a whole ton of other music apps all ready to use. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVLinux

That would have been really nice 9 years ago when I was trying to assemble a linux based DAW. I might check it out one of these days.
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