not sure where to ask this question, about the audio production possibilities...

[mac]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 01:30 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote:
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> Am 29.03.2010 18:20, schrieb Mac McIlvaine:
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> > Can you actually do destructive editing with Ardour at this point?
> > 
>  De facto you can. Once your edits and effects are to your liking, you
> can select a part of your audiotrack with the selection-tool and
> rightklick->consolidate with plugins.
> 
> I use a german version of Ardour so I do not really know, if the words
> are correct but as a matter of fact you can make Ardour write a new file
> that holds all your edits and FX and that replaces the former recording
> in the track.
> 
> This I would consider pretty nearish to reall destructive editig. Still
> Ardour lacks some important offline-Tools like note-detection and most
> important: noise reduction. For these things I open Sonic Visualizer and
> Audacity...
> 
> best regs
> 

Hi from the Ardour web page:

Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo

What you describe above is indeed modifying the recording, I don't
believe it is considered "destructive" editing.

Audacity will allow the wave form to be edited on a per sample basis,
actually changing the value of the sample at will. I believe this is
considered "destructive" editing.

I would be happy to be wrong, but I don't think Ardour allows such
detailed editing of the raw data.

Regards,
Mac