[linux-audio-user] JACK newbie

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 17:15 -0400, Stephen Ceresia wrote:
> > 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."

You need to install the "samplerate" or "libsamplerate" package.

What distro are you using?

Lee