Hi NMGLUG folks, In response to Jason's email: I ran $ sudo apt-get install ardour qjackctl xjadeo calf-plugins tap-plugins swh-lv2 so-synth-lv2 fil-plugins amb-plugins cmt rubberband-ladspa swh-plugins zam-plugins It was successful. In my menu section Sound & Video, Ardour5 is now added. I opened Ardour. It guided me through the setup prior to first usage. I completed that, accepting defaults. I tried to start a New Session, but I got a dialog box saying "Failed to start or connect to audio-engine. Latency calibration requires a working audio interface." I have not been able to get past that. On a positive note, I am able to use Audacity, and I'm not in a big hurry. Based on what you, Jason, wrote, I feel inclined to get Ardour working, so I can use this. While it's nice to have options, I agree that I may as well go straight to the best. I'm looking forward to getting Ardour configured/set up, so I can use this for most everything I want to do with audio recording. Here's what I'm doing now with video and audio editing. I will probably work on other projects in the future. This is just my current project. I want to offer my yoga instruction by video. So, I am recording videos of me doing specific yoga routines. When I have access, I'm filming from two different angles. I will discard the audio portion recorded while filming. Next, I do voice-over which is me speaking instructions about how to do what I'm demonstrating in the video. I might add a third audio track of background music. For this project, I think the audio editing is simple, and I can do this in kdenlive. I don't see any way to record audio in kdenlive. So, it may be best to record the voice-over audio in ardour. Equipment I've started with now is my smartphone to record the video and the mic in my laptop to record my voice-over. I think I found a Zoom H2 from Amazon.com for $170. Is there a problem with using the mic in my laptop? Thanks, LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/ Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:29:23 -0700
From: jason schaefer <js@jasonschaefer.com> To: nmglug@lists.nmglug.org Subject: Re: [nmglug] Can anyone suggest an audio recorder? Message-ID: <f9531aca-1db7-938a-3e2f-e1d7b22d50a9@jasonschaefer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Can you suggest any audio recorder that works well? My specific need at this moment is to record voice-over audio files which I will add to videos which I'll edit in Kdenlive.
I would recommend Ardour. After years of working with audio editing on GnuLinux I recommend going straight to the best and not wasting time on the "easy" software. Unless you are absolutely sure you will never progress into anything beyond the most basic task. Even then, for basic stuff Ardour is simple enough.
Depending on what your doing it may be easiest to edit audio in the video editing software. There is a plugin to Ardour called xjadeo but it is not a video editor. It is used for playing your final video edit in ardour so you can professionally edit the audio tracks and then combine the two when your done. Probably best for sound tracks but voice tracks with many video edits could be challenging using this method.
Its also really nice to have a simple field recorder. The Zoom H2 is what I have. Its perfect as long as you buy a hairy windscreen for it. I got mine from some guy in Hawaii who makes them by hand.
This will install ardour along with some plugins that you may find useful some day.
sudo apt-get install ardour qjackctl xjadeo calf-plugins tap-plugins swh-lv2 so-synth-lv2 fil-plugins amb-plugins cmt rubberband-ladspa swh-plugins zam-plugins
Hope that helps.