Mr. Picklesworth
September 14th, 2008, 05:29 AM
Not sure how old this news is, but I was excited to learn a few seconds ago that Jokosher 0.10 (http://www.jokosher.org/) is out, with a lot of fun little tweaks.
Jokosher is a young but superb audio editing tool. It is a wonderful escape from the norm (such as Audacity) since it is one of very few audio editing tools to use a real user interface toolkit. (And a well organized interface, to boot).
I also just discovered why I didn't have any instrument effects: they are implemented by what must be a superbly cool API called LADSPA (Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API), and the necessary plugins all must be installed separately. At first glance it seems a strange oversight that the Ubuntu package doesn't have them as Recommends, but then again they seem a bit hit & miss so far. See http://userdocs.jokosher.org/Installation and scroll down to "Instrument Effects".
This is exciting!
0.10 now supports PulseAudio properly, which means audio now sometimes "just works" (when you're lucky). Really, as one of the lucky ones for whom PulseAudio has always worked flawlessly, the smooth way that this operates (where it never quite coped for me via ALSA) is really encouraging.
Jokosher is a young but superb audio editing tool. It is a wonderful escape from the norm (such as Audacity) since it is one of very few audio editing tools to use a real user interface toolkit. (And a well organized interface, to boot).
I also just discovered why I didn't have any instrument effects: they are implemented by what must be a superbly cool API called LADSPA (Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API), and the necessary plugins all must be installed separately. At first glance it seems a strange oversight that the Ubuntu package doesn't have them as Recommends, but then again they seem a bit hit & miss so far. See http://userdocs.jokosher.org/Installation and scroll down to "Instrument Effects".
This is exciting!
0.10 now supports PulseAudio properly, which means audio now sometimes "just works" (when you're lucky). Really, as one of the lucky ones for whom PulseAudio has always worked flawlessly, the smooth way that this operates (where it never quite coped for me via ALSA) is really encouraging.