On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 18:25 -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > when I connect the output of Audacity to Timemachine _by hand_ using > Patchage > there is a delay in the stereo sound file between the start of audio in > ch1 & 2 > which is equal to the time at which the connections are physically made > to timemachine > > in other words: > - I create a 10 sec file of 440Hz sine in Audacity > - play it back on loop > - go to Patchage and connect ch1 from PortAudio (which is actually > Audacity) to Timemachine wait 10 seconds then connect ch2 to the other > input of Timemachine > - hit record on Timemachine wait a couple of seconds > - stop record on Timemachine > - stop playback of 440 sine in Audacity > - open the sound file recorded by Timemachine in Audacity > - look at the start of the sound file > - there is a delay between channels seen in the sound file equal to the > time I waited to connect ch1 & ch2 Maybe you could try with a JACK-native audio player. See below... > side question: why do the outputs of Audacity appear as PortAudio in Jack? > is it a reference to virtual ports being instantiated when playback > occurs in Audacity? No, it's because Audacity does not support JACK. It only half-manages it through using the PortAudio library. Peter. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user