From: Heimo C. <ha...@re...> - 2002-10-27 02:08:51
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Yes, I'd humbly second Kevin's suggestion for fade in/out. It's one of those functionalities I use quite often with (hitherto) analogous mixing for voice over (translation) for instance. Naive question: wouldn't this be done by some kind of linear limiting the volume/amplitude ? In which case there would be another welcome feature with it: setting a certain limit for a whole file - would be welcome with integrating/egalize pieces wkith a different (overall) sound level. (Have seen this somewhere and now cannot remember; audacity ?) And if we are at wishlists - here's what I suggested to Conrad recently; wonder what others think about it: -- setting for multiple, "persistent" (though erasable) bookmarks/stopmarks: marked places in the file where one could navigate to with a key shortcut (e.g., CTRL + Right-|Left-Arrow to next|previous mark); -- multiple persistent (though equally erasable) selection regions (e.g. to switch back/forth beween, compare before cutting). -- configurable keybindings... (I'm deeply unhappy with some of them as they are fixed now, especially for the most frequently used navigation keys.) // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-10-27 |
From: Erik de C. L. <eri...@me...> - 2002-10-27 02:51:28
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On 27 Oct 2002 Heimo Claasen <ha...@re...> wrote: > Yes, I'd humbly second Kevin's suggestion for fade in/out. It's one of > those functionalities I use quite often with (hitherto) analogous > mixing for voice over (translation) for instance. > > Naive question: wouldn't this be done by some kind of linear limiting > the volume/amplitude ? What I think you are refering to is ducking; dropping the volume of say the background music whenever the voice over comes in. This is usually done using side chain compression; you pass the music signal through the compressor, but the compressor control does not come from the music but from the voice. In this way, whenever the voice is present, the volume of the music is reduced. > In which case there would be another welcome > feature with it: setting a certain limit for a whole file - would be > welcome with integrating/egalize pieces wkith a different (overall) > sound level. Sorry, have no clue what you are talking about here :-}. <snip> > -- configurable keybindings... (I'm deeply unhappy with some of them > as they are fixed now, especially for the most frequently used > navigation keys.) I understand that Conrad is working on this. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo no...@me... (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ #!/bin/sh unzip ; strip; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; more ; umount ; sleep ; |
From: kevin e. <kev...@ya...> - 2002-10-27 19:20:02
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Yikes! I'm afraid I may have created some confusion with my wording. I was referring to a basic, run-of-the-mill fade-in fade-out, as in a linear or other amplitude envelope which affects a selected area. Some editors have this as a part of the core edit functionalty (as one of 4 or 5 choices in their "Edit" menu: cut, past, reverse, mix, fade-in/out, etc). Ordinarily this is quite straight forward, for example: user selects area (say the first 500 milliseconds of a sound file), user chooses "fade-in" from edit menu, application applies the chosen amplitude envelope to the selection. In the case of a linear fade-in, it would start with an amplitude multiplier of ZERO, and move linearly over the selection time to a multiplier of 1, or 100% of the original values. This is very useful for cleaning-up extracted/cut samples, making sure they begin at ZERO (no *pops*), and have a nice gradual, natural sounding "fade-out" at the end. Of course a linear envelope is just the simple case. Kevin By the way, I really like the idea of parameter envelopes mentioned in Conrad's paper. I think it takes the stream-based plugin model to the next logical level, giving the user finer control. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ |