Looking for stripped down WAV editor, needs measure/beats and looping, JACK
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:12 pm
I need to trim loops that I create sometimes. The typical scenario is that I am running my looper and recording and it just takes me awhile to settle in after hitting "record" to play the part correctly. So I wind up with a loop that has N measures of silence or me fumbling around and then several measures of the part being played more or less correctly. Then I either make a mistake or decide it's gone on long enough.
So, ideally, I'd pull this into an editor that was aware of both the tempo and time signature so I could easily snap to these boundaries to trim on measure boundaries. Snap to zero crossing and/or auto fade at the edges would be great too. Ability to audition the sample while it loops would be nice, and if it could sync to JACK transport, even better.
Audacity (which I have used for years as a basic editor) doesn't have a concept of tempo or time signature except to create a click track, which doesn't help all that much. Also, its relationship with JACK is not good.
I don't care about multi track. I don't care about effects plugins or tone generation or any of that. I just want to trim and audition loops in the simplest way possible.
I'm not sure if WAV file metadata includes the ability to save tempo/time sig information, I will have to check.
So, ideally, I'd pull this into an editor that was aware of both the tempo and time signature so I could easily snap to these boundaries to trim on measure boundaries. Snap to zero crossing and/or auto fade at the edges would be great too. Ability to audition the sample while it loops would be nice, and if it could sync to JACK transport, even better.
Audacity (which I have used for years as a basic editor) doesn't have a concept of tempo or time signature except to create a click track, which doesn't help all that much. Also, its relationship with JACK is not good.
I don't care about multi track. I don't care about effects plugins or tone generation or any of that. I just want to trim and audition loops in the simplest way possible.
I'm not sure if WAV file metadata includes the ability to save tempo/time sig information, I will have to check.