yep. knew all that but thanks a bunch - do see my embarassed other reply *laugh* On Tuesday 30 September 2003 20:32, Pete Bessman wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:52:21 -0500, "Aaron Trumm" <aaron@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > Does anybody know - does Ardour support assigning tracks to outputs other > > than > > just 1 and 2 - is this an Alsa issue? > > You can output any track to any available outputs. If your > soundcard has 24 outputs when properly configured ("properly" > being the operative word in that statement), then your > goal is achievable. Walk with me: > > 1) In ardour, click on "Session->Add Audio Track(s)->mono". > > 2) Click on "Windows->Mixer". > > 3) A window will popup with your track in it. Click > the "Output" button at the very bottom and select "Edit". > > 4) By defualt, the track will be outputting to "alsa_pcm:playback_1". > To add an output, click on the "out 1" heading for the list box and > select an output from the "alsa_pcm" tab under "available connections". > To remove an output, click on it. > > The procedure for changing recording inputs is similar, just click > on the "Input" button in the mixer view instead of "Output". > > > 2) > > when I start Jack (right now anyway), I've been using: > > jackd -R -d alsa -p 2048 > > you should try: > > jackd -R -d alsa -d hw:0 -r rate -p period > > Where 'rate' and 'period' are your soundcards > native rates. > > Peace, > =Pete > -- > You can only run configure at the top level of the Ardour source tree. > You don't want to know why this is true. Don't try to work around it. -- -------------- Aaron Trumm NQuit www.nquit.com --------------