Features summary
Here an incomplete list of the features of LAoE:- readable filetypes:
.ogg .mp3 .wav .au .aiff .gsm - writable filetypes:
.wav .aiff(will grow later) - extensible file format and file type architecture
- an own file format .laoe (readable and writable) which keeps the layer-information, documentation and editing-settings
- multi-channel support (mono, stereo, 3 and more), number of channels limited by hardware and sound-system only
- multi-layer support (tracks containing multiple channels), number of layers limited by hardware only
- floatingpoint sample precision
- one vector-based volume-mask per channel
- several standard editing functions like copy, paste, cut, move, duplicate, crop...
- unlimited undo-history with absolute view
- extended select functions with variable intensity curve to define smooth selections, and several selection manipulation functions
- layer-stack and channel-stack to manipulate these objects
- extended zoomable sample-curve view
- in both axis zoomable and configurable spectrogram-view
- analysis tools like spectrum view, measure tools, statistics, calculator...
- diverse waveform generators like signal-generator (rectangle, triangle, sinus...), harmonics generator, pitch generator, freehand generator with diverse interpolation features...
- divers amplitude functions like balance, divers fades, compress expand, distortion, autovolume...
- diverse sample-functions like constant and variable resampling (may also be applied to a selection only), diverse math functions, convolution, forward and inverse fast fourier transform (yes, you can edit the freqeuncy domain!)...
- some filters like parameter-filter, equalizer, multi-notch filter, FFT filter...
- a great spectrogram-filter, which allows to edit in spectrogram-domain, using a brush and rectangle tool to select shapes
- many audio-effects like multiple reverbs, delay-echo, chorus-flange, multipitch, disharmony, pitch shift, time stretch etc...
- a disharmony-plugin to completely disharmonize a sound in several ways
- mouse-stroke shortcuts! e.g. draw a simple "u" with the mouse to start the undo-history plugin...
- some plugins (effects and functions) accept a function curve as parameter, to perform variations in time of a parameter of that effect or function
- uniform clip concept allows to perform all these effects and function on usual time-domain audiosamples, frequency-domain spectrums (magnitude, phase) or any parameter curve
- graphic objects may be drawn onto the clip, for documentation purpose
- the current clip view may be stored as a jpeg or png image-file
- extensible plugin architecture
Menucard
The LAoE menucard is a double-side printed card, containing global information when working with LAoE, like details of the most common plugins, menu-structure, key-shortcuts and mouse-shortcuts. Download it, and make a paper-print.
Tutorials
The LAoE tutorial serie is available here. The LAoE tutorial serie is a serie of articles focussed to LAoE-users. These articles have been written with the idea to bring LAoE to a larger public, and to discover many unexpected features, and maybe because LAoE isn't as easy to use without documentation. At the moment, the serie is not complete, I work on it.
The articles have been written with openoffice 641, the original .sxw-files are available here. They have a nicer layout than the html-versions.
- first steps, august 2002 (html, pdf 1.5M)
- concepts (will be available soon)
- how to use selections, april 2002 (html, pdf 0.9M)
- how to use layers, april 2002 (html, pdf 2.6M)
- how to generate signals (not available)
- how to perform effects (not available)
- how to use FFT (not available)
- how to use spectrum analysis (not available)
- how to use spectrogram filter (not available)