Re: Ecasound Syntax Can you Listen to what you are Editing?
On 2008-12-01, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> Is it possible to edit a sound file under ecasound and
> store the parts one wants to keep at the same time while
> monitoring the master?
>
> The documentation seems to state that you can send the
> output to multiple locations. In this case, one is the new file
> that contains a subset of the master and the other is the sound
> card.
>
> After a long evening of syntax war, the closest thing
> that will actually load is:
>
> ecasound -c -i input.wav -o alsa -o output.wav
>
> This silently copies the input to the output and, if you
> fast-forward X number of seconds, the output file has X number
> of seconds of dead silence before the sound starts. The start of
> the sound is at the right place but I am obviously doing
> something very wrong because I have never gotten it to both play
> and record simultaneously. The sound card is capable of this so
> if it can work, it should.
>
> The fw and rw commands work just fine when playing a
> .wav file. I may simply be misunderstanding what one can do with
> ecasound.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
I don't know if it can be done that way, but I just tried it
quickly by running ecasound in two terminals, one to play and
one to record. Like a double cassette deck.
ecasound -i input.wav -o /dev/dsp -c
ecasound -i /dev/dsp -o output.wav -c
When you stop (s) or pause recording, you can fiddle with the
play "deck" until you want to continue (t) recording.
Just an idea.
Howard E.
Ottawa
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