[Freewheeling-user] Re: ardour / fw integration

[JP M. <sw...@st...>]

Hey Jorge,

I have some good news for you. I have written a small script that converts the
USX timing data that Freewheeling writes into location markers in an .ardour
session. 

This means you can stream your jams out and arrange them in Ardour later,
without loosing the downbeat and tempo information. 

I wrote this script because I wanted more flexibility in my editing process
and it has come in handy for making mixes based on live material. I will
probably end up doing a tutorial on this, but for now, here is the script
(attached). It will be included in the next version of FW.

First, you run FW and stream to disk.
Next, you run 'oggdec live??.ogg' on the live stream to convert it to a WAV
which Ardour can read.
Then, you run Ardour and create a session. You add 'live??.wav' as an audio track.
Save and close your session.

Now run:
./go-import-markers session.ardour live??.wav.usx

And the script will add timing markers to the Ardour session based on the
downbeats of any pulses you have in your stream. 

When you reload the Ardour session. you will see the markers. Using Ardour's
'Snap-To' feature, you can easily cut up regions into bars-- and create tight
edits and remixes. With all the timing markers, Ardour works one step closer
to the way Acid does. For me that's a welcome step. 

Hope this helps,
-Mercury

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 17:25:54 +0100, Jorge Salgueiro wrote 
> freewhelling as became my perfect work tool. 
>   
>  I think that could be nice that freewheeling recorded sessions in a session
file that could be used as an ardour file session. Total cooperation beetween
the two. I'm not talking about jack connections. ;-)