Re: [ReZound-users] Greetings

[Davy D. <dd...@ne...>]

Greetings,

Robert Brown wrote:

>I believe that everything was included when I built 0.5.1, but I don't remember exactly ;). I made a half hearted attempt to build from cvs and if I remember I had some trouble with the configure script not seeing my install of fftw (I have 2.1.3), I am foggy on the details, bit it had something to do with names. I was short on time and gave up easily ;), so I figured I would look into it if I had such a problem building the next release... or possible before if time permits.
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Well, for your uses fftw is probably not so necessary, it will be 
required for the frequency analyzer and convolution filters (which are 
really cool I think).    If you need either of these two things then let 
me know of the problem your having with fftw and we'll see if we can fix it.

>Yes, I record all the sermons at Grace Baptist Church here in Syracuse, NY. I record the services on DAT, then use ReZound to edit and process the transferred wave files for burning to cd. I also have used ReZound for another side project that invloved editing and processing about 18 hours of Bible study on the Book of Revelation, which was then converted to mp3 for use on an interactive 2 CD set that should soon be avaliable nationwide through an national Bible teaching ministry.
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Ah, cool.  Well, that makes 2 (of the 7 or 8 regular users that have 
contacted me) that (I know) are professing Christians (not including 
myself)  Our other brother, named Jason Lyons, lives out in California 
and uses ReZound (although I'm not sure what he's using it for).    BTW- 
Does your church have a website?   I am especially glad that ReZound can 
be used for these such purposes.  

However ( :) ), I am struggling to determine if open source amounts in 
the end to socialism (an Unbiblical ideal).  I don't want to *think* it 
does, but I need to be careful before I fully endorse the open source 
ideals.  The FSF (strickly speaking, not being the equivant to 'open 
source') as described by Stallman, you would think he's a raging 
communist or something, but he only (as far as I know) applies his 
beliefs to software.  And *obviously*, nor is he pushing for state 
control of software development...  I dunno... I'm just babbling... 
nevermind :)

>Generally I am working with files that start from 700 megs to 1.5 Gigs.
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Well, I've only tested it with files that large a few times, but other 
than it taking a long time to load, it worked fine.  Hopefully the crops 
and other edits are fairly fast; I designed the way editing works 
(fundamentally, adding/removing space in the audio) with large files in 
mind.

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>Yep, tarball. Gentoo does not use binary packaging except in rare cases like realplayer (not a package, but a binary install script). It has a BSD style ports system, so that all programs are built from source using a "ebuild" script that downloads, configures and installs from source. It has some nifty advantages over any package/ports systems I have worked with. 
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>I have never composed any ebuilds myself, but I am told that it is a snap, so If I have time I may write one for ReZound. It's bound to get more Gentoo users hooked as well ;)
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If you get to feeling like making one, please do.

>That's cool! It's already given me 100% satisfaction, but If I miss one thing from the old editor it is the ability to export or save a selected portion of audio only. Currently I just use crop, save, then undo as a workaround, although it works fine ;)
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The cvs version (and so the next release) contains this feature.  It's 
until the 'File' menu as 'Save Selection As'.   I've also added a 
feature that you may find useful.  You can set up some cue positions 
that tell ReZound how to, in one action, save multiple files based on 
these positions.  

I implemented this because sometimes I record live concerts (on DAT like 
you.. w/ Sony TCD-D100) and then later I wanted the dumped file to be 
broken in to several files--one for each song.  So, perhaps if you 
wanted to dump the sermon and then place a cue delimiting the preacher's 
outline points you could have it save multiple .wav files and then 
when/if you burned them they could become multiple tracks.  

Also, there's an action under the 'Looping' menu called 'Add Cues' where 
you can tell it to add X number of evenly spaced cues within the 
selection.   So then you could break the sermon into say 15 or 20 tracks 
all with the same length.  Another possible feature I could add is to 
have this 'Add Cues' action beable to add cues every X number of 
seconds; then you could have the sermon broken into 5 minute tracks (and 
the the last one being the remaining less than 5 minutes) or something. 
     Yeah, I think I'll add that feature too, I could at least use that.

(NOTE: libaudiofile's currently release doesn't correctly save cue's in 
.wav files.   To save cues you will need to either need to get the cvs 
version of audiofile and recompile ReZound with it (at least I think he 
put my patch in already).  Or you can just always use .rez format or 
.aiff.  I plan to switch from audiofile to libsndfile as soon as 
libsndfile has cues and notes implemented.  I've been in contact with 
him and he says he's working on it, so hopefully soon I can move away 
from audiofile.  The development on audiofile is all but dead now, and 
it wasn't finished. )

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>Thanks for the great job and If I can help in some small way, feel free to ask ;)
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Ok I sure will if I need something...   And the most useful thing people 
can do is to let me know when there's problems.

Thanks,
   Davy