"Josh Lawrence": > > Hello everyone, > > Last night, I was successfully able to get a jack midi sequencer, > non-sequencer, working with non-jack midi applications using a2jmidid. > I was thrilled! That is, right up until I looked at what it took to > get this setup going: > > Start jack, start a2jmidid, start non-sequencer, start whysynth, > connect and record, disconnect, start another synth, connect, > etc...Throw Hydrogen into the mix, and now I have to set bpm for all > applications. If I don't use Hydrogen, then I need to start > jack_metro and connect it to jack. > > Yikes! > > I know the "one tool for one job" philosophy, so I am perfectly OK > with using this many apps. There's just GOT to be a better way (i.e., > less time-consuming, more efficient) of connecting these applications. > Has anyone encountered this frustration, and have you found a > solution? I notice that there are some command-line applications for > connecting jack (jack plumbing?), I have a sense that the gui is > slowing me down, and maybe scripting all of this might be better; > alas, I am horrible at scripting. :) > > Any and all suggestions would be very, very much appreciated! I'm > sooooo close to making this all work... > I have used jack_snapshot for this: http://tapas.affenbande.org/wordpress/?page_id=14 (I also think the guys at the soundwire group at ccrma have made a similar app.) Another alternative is qjackctl, which has some setting to save connections to an xml file. A third option is using emacs lisp. At least I think someone made emacs bindings to connect jack apps. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
