[linux-audio-dev] RE: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] JACK TimeMachine

[Mark Knecht]

Thanks Steve! Sounds like it's both fun and useful!

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu
> [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Steve
> Harris
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: linux-audio-announce; Linux-audio-dev;
> linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
> Subject: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] JACK TimeMachine
>
>
> http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/ tarball, 100k.
> Depends on SDL, SDL_image, jack and libsndfile.
>
> I used to always keep a minidisc recorder in my studio running in a mode
> where when you pressed record it wrote the last 10seconds of audio to the
> disk and then caught up to realtime and kept recroding. The recorder died
> and haven't been able to replace it, so this is a simple jack app to do
> the same job. It has the advantage that it never clips and can be wired to
> any part of the jack graph.
>
> I've been using it to record occasional bursts of interesting noise from
> jack apps feeding back into each other.
>
> Usage: ./configure, make, make install, run jack_timemachine. Connect it
> up with a patchbay app. To start recording click in the window. To stop
> recording, click in the window.
>
> It writes out 32bit float WAV files called tm-<time>.wav, where <time> is
> the time the recording starts from.
>
> The prebuffer time and number of channels are set in a macro, defaults are
> 10s and 2. It works on my machine, and I'l fix major bugs, but I don't
> really have time to support another piece of software, so good luck :)
> If anyone wants to maintain it, feel free.
>
> May it preserve many interesting sounds for you,
>    Steve
>
>