[linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

[Olivier Guilyardi]

Arnold Krille wrote:

> First: Ardour has a good mixer like the one you are searching for. 
> Disadvantage: you get the overhead of a not-needed hd-recorder...

Ardour is great, but I really miss a minimalistic jack-enabled mixer : 
little resources required, little space on my desktop, etc...

> Second: JackMix [1]

Jackmix is a great project. I gave it a try in version 0.0.1, but it all 
went bad at some point (segfault or whatever, I don't remember)... I 
promise I'll send a bug report next time ;) These knob buttons on 
version 0.0.3 look good :)

By the way, since I see you talking about LADSPA plugins and other 
advanced features, I'd personnally greatly appreciate an option to hide 
them, as well as the aux buttons, to save desktop space. Usually I only 
need volume levels, and I use jack-rack for additional effects on a few 
tracks.

Actually, I've used jackEQ a lot (http://jackeq.sf.net), it's pretty 
_stable_, but you're limited to four channels. I really need a 
customizable number of channels.

Recently, trying the Hydrogen drum-machine (http://hydrogen.sf.net), I 
just caught myself thinking : "that is the nicest mixer that has ever 
run on my desktop". The buttons look and ergonomy are amazing, the small 
led meters are _smooth_, and the whole takes _little_ desktop space. The 
way it handles effects plugins is efficient too, I think.

I believe, one should extract this mixer from the Hydrogen project, and 
make it a standalone Jack app. I didn't look at the code, but it 
shouldn't be that hard, no ?

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   og