[LAU] internal sound source for Audacity

[david]

On 03/05/2014 11:45 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Brian Hagen wrote:
>
>> I have an unusually pleasant surprise here: a MIDI wind controller
>> can drive a software synth without even having both of their apps
>> running. I would like to be able to get the resulting audio-signal
>> that is an output from this (normally sent to the PC's speakers)
>> redirected to Audacity's input-selector so that I can record it.
>
> Yes you can use jack for this.
>
>   - Audacity auto connects and so you need to manually disconnect and
> reconnect.
>   - Audacity does not connect until record is started. The best thing to
> do is hit pause, then record, then make connection changes in jack, then
> unpause to begin recording.
>   - Audacity is not listed in jack under it's own name but the name of
> the library it uses to make jack ports.
>   - The name of the port for audacity changes every time you hit record
> so this can not be automated... maybe with wild cards.
>
> For just recording, I would use mhwaveedit which works with jack
> "properly", that is it makes jack ports as soon as started and they
> remain as long as the program is running. Once the wav file is recorded
> there may be some editing tasks that Audacity does better (some of the
> built in effects).

Or you can use jack_capture to record the WAV file, and process it 
afterwards in Audacity.

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