wanna record stuff ? Ardour!!!
that's a killer app. Being on the ardour forum, I know there are tons of people who have problems with it (jackd is a bit sensitive and ardour won't run without it). But when you have a hardware that is very well supported by linux and that is comfortable with low latency setting, etc (RME gears for example), together with a well tuned real time kernel, Ardour is THE recording app if you want play with a multitrack environment. As always, there's a learning curve but really, ardour is becoming very mature and will soon be released with MIDI editing support. Cannot wait
All my sessions are made with ardour. Together with JAMIN for mastering, this is truly a delight to work on your compositions!
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jamin is used for mastering, which is the "art" of boosting the overall level of your music. The cool thing is that it has a very detailed EQ (1024 bands) that you can edit on the fly with a pencil tool, it has an efficient compressor, divided in three independent compression modules corresponding to three frequency domains (whose boundaries you can adjust on the fly as well), it has a "scene" based work flow, so you can have zillions (well, 20 at most) different settings that you can edit, and call on the fly (activate, deactivate) by a simple mouse click, it has a fast lookahead limiter for eliminating in a very efficient way above level samples, it has a "sound warmer" or booster that simulates the warmth of a tube amp (very cool stuff), it is JACK aware of course, it can be used as an insert in your ardour master bus that you can activate / deactivate easily, it washes the dishes ... ah no, sorry ...
I cannot go on like this, have a look at the jamin website!
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html
the news section is outdated though. But there are some cool piece of info about mastering from the various links.
I personaly use it almost everyday for dfferent reasons. For ex. my turntable is not plugged to a h/w amp, it is directly plugged to my RME Multiface II. SO I use jack-rack with a software amp, directed to jamin for producing a nice level in all frequencies so my ripped LPs can compete with commercial CDs (well, to be frank I did this kind of work for friends who are not very critical when it comes to sound quality but they really enjot the result).
I shall one day write some tutorials (or even film myself) with all the things I learned during these intense months playing in my "cosy" studio But that's a project on its own which takes a lot of time (like chit-chatting in various forums )
@briwood
I forgot to mention, the art of mastering is not easy, I am still learning about it but if you already have a good and robust mix, mastering becomes much easier. In some of my work, mastering makes a big difference : from a low volume but good enough balanced mix, you can turn your master track into a very large and big sounding piece of music. It makes a big difference, believe me!
I cannot go on like this, have a look at the jamin website!
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html
the news section is outdated though. But there are some cool piece of info about mastering from the various links.
I personaly use it almost everyday for dfferent reasons. For ex. my turntable is not plugged to a h/w amp, it is directly plugged to my RME Multiface II. SO I use jack-rack with a software amp, directed to jamin for producing a nice level in all frequencies so my ripped LPs can compete with commercial CDs (well, to be frank I did this kind of work for friends who are not very critical when it comes to sound quality but they really enjot the result).
I shall one day write some tutorials (or even film myself) with all the things I learned during these intense months playing in my "cosy" studio But that's a project on its own which takes a lot of time (like chit-chatting in various forums )
@briwood
I forgot to mention, the art of mastering is not easy, I am still learning about it but if you already have a good and robust mix, mastering becomes much easier. In some of my work, mastering makes a big difference : from a low volume but good enough balanced mix, you can turn your master track into a very large and big sounding piece of music. It makes a big difference, believe me!