[linux-audio-user] Cooledit substitutes?

John Bleichert syborg at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 15 11:44:09 EST 2003


On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Do these words - "Audacity seems to work well..." - mean, there are
> successful stories in using Audacity with jack server? I have tried both
> (Audacity-1.2 and PortAudio-19) from CVS, replacing PortAudio lib while building
> Audacity, without any success.
>
> Andrew
>

hehe - no, they mean it seemed to work for me but I haven't had a chance
to play with it fully yet. (I missed most of the rest of this thread so my
OP was sort of out of sync, sorry.)

> ======= On Mon December 15 2003 17:26, John Bleichert wrote: =======
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Larry Troxler wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Cooledit substitutes?
> >
> > Inspired by this thread, I did a quick lookup of Audacity,
> > and it appears that there is no Jack support.
> >
> > Anyone? Is this right?
> >
> > I realize that the developer seems to be working in a Microsoft environment
> > - hence Jack support isnt' a big priority. However, I suppose we should be
> > thankfull that this thing runs in Linux at all - I don't remember off-hand
> > what GUI Audacity uses, but I'm thankfull at least that portability to
> > Linux was kept in mind.
> >
> > Nevertheless - until it has Jack support I'm not going to bother with it.
> > Sorry.
> >
> > Larry
>
> Actually, I think it's being actively developed on OSX and Linux with a
> Windows port, but I could be wrong. Audacity seems to work well of you
> follow the Wiki build instructions to get it to build with Portaudio and
> to use Jack.
>
> I've only just gotten my studio back together and hope to start beating on
> it soon. In any event, the OSS emulation layer in ALSA works pretty well
> with Audacity, not much lag when capturing all 4 channels from my Delta44.
> Perhaps you should give it a shot?
>
>
> // John Bleichert
> // syborg at earthlink.net
>

// John Bleichert
// syborg at earthlink.net



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