On Fri, 25 Nov, 2005 at 11:26AM -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen spake thus: > > james: > >On Fri, 25 Nov, 2005 at 12:34AM -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen spake thus: > >> > >> http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/ > >> > > > >I normally use timemachine for recording like this - how does this > >differ? > > timemachine is a different kind of program. Its a GUI thing that is ment > to be running all the time. > > This is just a quick tool to get the sound going into your loudspeakers as > quickly as possible into disk. It happens quite a lot when I play with PD > or jamin, for example. What happened previously, when I had something > cool going, was that I had to start timemachine (which name does not > start with jack, so I allways use a lot of time remembering its name), > connect the correct jack ports into it in qjackctl, and press the > recording button. In addition, as you say, timemachine use this (and I > really mean it) stupid w64 fileformat by default, and I very seldom > remember to use the -f flag to override that. Instead of doing all that, > now I can just write "jack_capture", and it starts recording immmediately. Well, that's me convinced. Now I also realise that I've been swearing at timemachine for no reason and I have another tool to add to my toolbox, or - hey, why not mix a metaphor? - arsenal. James > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
