Thanks Oren. As I use Ubuntu mainly to support website development and testing I don't use much in the way of audio tools.

I'm lazy perhaps, but of the opinion that if the thing doesn't sound good in the room or at the gig, then why do I need to muck with it in post production and make it what it ain't. Kinda like airbrushing my face. Or wearing makup to do a video. Soon I hope to put together a demo of my developing sets, but the video work will be to fade in and out of the clips, and a bit of crazy stuff like me singing in the garage, which I'd just do with a recording of the song on my voice recorder at the right tempo so I can sort of lip synch it for the video cam.

I have a business selling risk management plans and employee manuals for bars. All that is in Ubuntu, and to be honest as a time saver and an old unix hack the manuals are in a directory and I change the company names in the headers and bodies, the addresses etc with scripts the old fashioned way.

for example (without the loop to go through the files in the directory the main line is

sed '/Company/s//New Company/g'

and so on for each change from phone number to whatever and usually I'm done, except to pdf the files and send them to the print shop via email, and pick them up.

John Conley
Musica est vita