[linux-audio-user] JACK newbie

[Stephen Ceresia]

> Try checking out specimen:
> http://www.gazuga.net/
> 
> It is a software sampler.  The author of specimen uses it with seq24 and
> gets very good results.
> 
> If you do not already have qjackctl installed, I highley recommend
> installing it now:
> 
> Qjackctl:
> http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Qjackctl can manage jack connections and alsa connections.  jack
> connections are for sharing audio data between programs, and alsa
> connections are for sharing midi data between programs.
> 
> I believe once you have both seq24 and specimen running, the midi ports
> in specimen will be available to you in seq24.   You can then trigger
> samples in specimen by sending midi notes from seq24 to specimen.
> 
> Is this what you were looking to do?
> 

That sounds exactly what I would like to do!  I'm having some issues
installing Specimen though...

"Package samplerate was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing 'samplerate.pc' to the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'samplerate' found

configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 libxml-2.0 jack alsa
samplerate sndfile phat) not met; consider adjusting the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them."

I apologize if this is not the right place to be asking about this...
I suppose now you can tell how much of a Linux newbie I actually am...