Hey guys - it's been ages since I've done anything other than keep an eye on Jokosher, and I've decided that I should try and rectify that. First, the latest edition is looking bloody brilliant. It's a really great looking application, with some serious functionality. Secondly, I'm thinking of maybe putting together some screencasts on how to use Jokosher, using J to record the audio, of course. :) Lastly, a quick test case that threw up a couple of questions for me: Background: I wanted to take 2 pieces of audio, 1 which had lengthy sections of quiet interspersed with brief sections of quiet audio, and overlay a 2nd audio track, which would fade in and out as appropriate. I have to say that this was as easy in Jokosher as in Audacity, and the resultant output was better, as Jokosher more easily handles fades to lower levels due to the waveform editing, whereas Audacity only has fade to 0. However, 1 or 2 issues that cropped up (mostly questions, rather than bugs - feel free to point me to Trac if they're just bugs ;) ) 1. Reduced sample 2 to 0 for last couple of seconds, playback caused hang. 0:02:56.757746000 10418 0x81e8f90 ERROR audioresample resample_ref.c:118:resample_scale_ref: buffer_queue_pull returned NULL Haven't tried reproducing this - probably a known bug? 2. Sometimes the audio seems to just crackle out, or not play. This is a weird one - there is a definite crackle at times, and then it stops playing. But if you stop and restart, often it's OK. 3. Doesn't scroll when you select off screen. When you're selecting bits of audio with the shift-drag, it should really scroll to the left (or right) if you mouse out of the window. 4. Would be nice to be able to type numbers in effects window Is this possible, given that the effects are based on LADSPA? It would be nice to be able to, say, type 4.5, rather than having to slide. 5. Would be nice if you could amplify in the same way as you fade out - perhaps get a line showing the top peak, and raise the whole clip. Particularly for podcasters, it would be nice to use a similar system to the fade in/fade out to be able to amplify. Is this within the scope of J, or do we leave it to the effects? 6. Need to be able to apply an effect to a portion of music, not just a whole instrument. Again - is this possible? Or is there a 'workaround' to make it happen? (ie split audio, copy to new instrument, apply effect?) In my example, some of the audio on the first instrument was a lot quieter than on other sections, and I would've liked to either use something like the wave editor to amplify, or select a portion to apply the amplify effect to. 7. Why shift-drag to select? Surely it would make more sense to drag to select, and shift-drag to move the object file? Seem counter-intuitive to me? 8. Is there some way of indicating that an effect has been applied to some audio? Maybe a little icon that can be moused-over to indicate what effects have been applied? Sorry if some of this should have gone to the forums or onto Trac. Hope it all makes sense :) Cheers mrben -- Ben Thorp <mrben jedimoose org>
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