Re: DAW closest to PT?


Steve King wrote:

And, it is sooooo, soooo slow compare to navigating a time line and cutting
using both audio and visual cues.

What's the hurry? I find that I make editing mistakes whenever I rush.
But what's the value of a time line when you don't know what time the
singer missed the word and you want to replace it? Or is your "time
line" musical (bars/beats)? That doesn't help me eigher since I rarely
have a score to follow.

The best I can do is put a marker at the start of a verse or chorus and
go from there.

I use interns in my studio from time to
time. I haven't met one yet that couldn't master the rudiments of
cut-editing on a DAW in a few hours of practice.

I don't have any interns, I have to do it myself. And, yes, I 'mastered
the rudiments' in a couple of minutes. I just can't get a handle on the
practical side. If someone else finds the edit point for me, I can do a
great edit. But it's locating the cut and splice points that I still
depend on my ears for, and my reaction time isn't fast enough so that I
can push a RIGHT HERE button accurately. I can get sort of close, but I
still have to go back and listen a few times, then zoom in and locate
what I think is the right spot, make the edit, and then listen again to
see if I did it right. I often as not do it in the wronig place because
they all look the same to me.

And, to me, 'scrubbing'
belongs in the same category as 'buggy whip'.

But it's very easy to identify a unique edit point that way.

Of course, I have to admit
that cutting and splicing tape, although slow, inaccurate and very
inconvenient to restore to original, when something doesn't work out, is
very therapeutic. It's a zone thing.

I've never thought of it as theraputic. It's just something that needs
to be done. One thing I'll say about digital editing, and it's a
carry-over from mechanical editing, is that you really don't have to be
as accurate as you think you do. I'm surprised that some mechanical
edits work, and I'm equally surprised that digital edits work, when I'm
not really sure I'm splicing at the right point and just take a stab at
it. I think that editing accuracy may be overrated most of the time,
and that as long as you get the right word or note in the right place,
it's OK.

Let me add that I don't routinely edit drum beats. I replace things
that aren't right if I have a better alternative. I'm sure there's
nothing easier than splitting a drum hit into a region and sliding it
over to line up with a grid. I've played with that on the Mackie HDR
and it's a snap (literally). But I don't want to mess with a singer's
phrasing by moving words or syllables around.

.

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