<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">david wrote:</span></div>
> Hmm, maybe make a script that checks to see if firewire device is<br>> connected. If true, it starts JACK with the firewire backend, otherwise,<br>> it starts with your ALSA backend. Maybe you could run that script on<br>
> startup.</i></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Thanks David, but as a beginner I have no idea where to write this scipt. I assume you don't mean that I write such a script in the QjackCtl setup GUI, right?</span></font></div>
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</span></font><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i>Dominic Sacr? wrote:</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i>> The "Execute script on Startup" field is used to run a command before<br>
> the JACK server is started (which may or may not be the same time<br>> QjackCtl is started).<br>> The meta-symbols can be used to pass parameters to the command. For<br>> example, if "alsa" is your active QjackCtl preset, %P would be replaced<br>
> with "alsa" when the command is executed.<br><br>> From your description it sounds like to don't need a startup script at<br>> all, but what you really want is "qjackctl -p alsa".</i></span></div>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">That's very insightful Dominic - thanks! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">What would "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">qjackctl -p alsa" do and where would I enter it? in the QjackCtl settings window? I don't understand the meta-symbols at all. So "%P alsa" is meaningless in terms of automatically loading a QjackCtl preset?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Dan</span></div>