[Scott Dorsey]

geoff wrote:
On 9/09/2020 12:29 am, Scott Dorsey wrote:

About as easy as a script in Sound Forge then.\

Pretty much the same, except not proprietary. A lot of DAWs have scripting
languages built into them because the underlying operating system has fallen
down on the job.

No. Scripting functions built into them in order to use the applications
own propriety functions using its own code, and that of hosted plugins.

Of course one could exit to an OS command line to do all sorts of things
if they were implemented, but if a dedicated fundamentalist and you
could do everything that way in the OS itself, what would be the point
of having applications ?

That's what sox is, it's an application that does simple tasks. The point
of the Software Tools environment is to have small applications that can
be chained together to do very powerful things.

Not all of those applications are part of the OS, many of them are things you
add and you run from the OS.

So you use sox -called by- a script in the operating system. You can actually
operate some all-in-one DAW packages that way too, although it feels like an
afterthought on most of them today.
--scott

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