[linux-audio-user] Problem with qarecord and qjackctl

[James Stone]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:51:37PM -0600, Eduardo Guerrero wrote:
> I'm trying to capture what I play with ZynAddSubFX and Hydrogen in a wav 
> file. What I have done so far is start qjackctl for having jack running, 
> then ZynAddSubFX and Hydrogen with the proper connection so everything 
> sounds fine. Then I start qarecord but if I check the capture checkbox 
> nothing appears on the level meters, but if I don't start jack I can see 
> the meters moving and capture the sound coming from xmms in a wav file 
> that plays fine.
> 
> Is it that qarecord only works without jack? I think it should but I 
> can't make it to appear in the connections window in qjackctl as I have 
> seen in some tutorials, it shows in the MIDI section though as a 
> writable client / input port. I'm pretty sure that's not what I need.
> 
> I'm using qjackctl v. 0.2.0 and qarecord v. 0.0.8. All of them installed 
> from THAC's RPM site for Mandrake 9.2.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Eduardo.

Just start qarecord with the --jack option...

James`