Share what you use for audio editing and creation

sidetone

sidetone

I normally use audio/sox (under LGPL) on the terminal console to convert audio file formats. Sometimes used it to trim down to verses of a track. Also to slow down or speed up music.

In the past, I've used audio/audacity to remix music. audio/ardour is the proper tool for mixing music, while audacity is meant for podcasts or basic voice recordings, but audacity can still do it. Used audio/hydrogen before as a drum kit, and there's a few more drum kits/machines.

Learned about audio/musescore from RoboNuggie:
musescore.jpg

Wish I knew about this program sooner... What do you use to edit, mix or create audio, whether on a GUI or command-line? What can you describe about how you have used these programs for music/audio creation or editing? Does anyone hook up musical instruments for making MIDI tracks? How much do you use software for creation of MIDI based music?
 
mostly audacity for podcast and radio editing (web or actual radio), ffmpeg in scripts for flac to mp3, etc.
i'm considering ardour at the moment but i'm also investigating usb soundcards to record the main instruments (a bass guitar primarily), i have a recorder for "found sound" that provides with files.
at some point of time i played with pd a bit but it was a pain to have it utter something audible ahah.
thanks for the drum machine ref...
have you considered live coding via sonicpi or equivalent?
 
As for audacity, I had been annoyed by this rendering issue for a long time but finally found a solution.
The language environments like LANG, LC_CTYPE should be unspecified for an unknow reason to avoid the issue.
Since my primary language is Japanese and I set setenv LANG ja_JP.UTF-8 in .cshrc (equivalent to export LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" in other shells), launching audacity from an X terminal caused the issue. If you specify those in .xsession or similar files, you will also need to unset or remove them.
Many people refer to "GTK_IM_MODULE=audacity" but in my case, audacity works well even with export GTK_IM_MODULE="fcitx" and export GTK3_IM_MODULE="fcitx" in .xsession.
To simplify the launching, just pinning audacity in a lauching panel will be OK, which worked well at least with my KDE plasma 6.
 
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