On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 05:03:41AM +0100, Andrew C wrote:
> Wow, thanks for the replies guys!
>
> Of the software mentioned here, my biggest wish is for syncability with JACK
> transport, so I can send the output of one of the linuxsampler instruments
> to the recording software, hit the play button from inside Rosegarden and
> have a perfectly synced audio copy of one particular instrument output which
> I can then drop back into the sequencer timeline and continue with another
> section of the song, thereby freeing up system resources.
Ecasound can probably meet your sync requirements.
According to the Ecasound User's Manual:
JACK's transport control interface allows controlling the
transport state of all the apps connected to one JACK server
from a single application. Ecasound can support this
functionality in four different modes ("notransport",
"send", "recv" and "sendrecv").
For Ecasound to respond to external transport controls, you
need to set:
-G:jack,eca_slave,recv # responds
or
-G:jack,eca_slave,sendrecv # sends as well as responds
> Of course, this rules out jack_capture I'm afraid!
>
> I'll take a look at Ecasound/Nama, the tk interface for nama doesn't look
> too bad and it's relatively lightweight.
Yours is a minority opinion on looks. :-)
Even this mother is not especially enamored of them.
To get the Tk interface via Debian, you'll need to:
apt-get install perl-tk
Or if by CPAN:
cpan Tk
To get Ecasound/Nama to respond to JACK transport you'll
need to set the configuration variables above in $HOME/.namarc
(created on the first run). I would suggest starting with:
ecasound_globals_default: "-z:mixmode,sum -G:jack,eca_slave,recv"
and deleting the line for 'ecasound_globals_realtime', which is
unnecessary.
> Arnold, I can't find any link to time-machine as audio recording software
> via google, just as a filesystem snapshotting app.
>
> Traverso is perhaps a bit overkill for my needs. Also, isn't audacity JACK
> aware via pulse audio or somesuch?
FWIW, audacity clocks in at 54MB at startup, and
automatically detects (but does not start) JACK.
Did not test JACK transport sync.
Regards,
Joel
> Thanks again,
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Andrew C <countfuzzball@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hey list,
> >
> > I'm in a bit of dilemma here, my machine has only 1 GB of RAM and I'm
> > running linuxsampler, rakarrack and bristol with rosegarden sequencing all
> > of them together. As you can imagine, this does stretch my machine's
> > resources a fair bit, so I find myself needing to bounce-to-audio. Any
> > software out there that can do this relatively painlessly?
> >
> > This might be a bug in Rosegarden (10.04.2) or my version of jackdmp
> > (1.9.6), but when I try to do it in Rosegarden, I found that the recorded
> > audio tends to record previously recorded wav files and other such oddities.
> > So I am looking for a relatively lightweight alternative or is this just a
> > case of 'Yep, just use ardour!'?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
--
Joel Roth
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