6 Jun
2017
6 Jun
'17
10:36 a.m.
Hello! As a person who only knows for sure that sound goes in the ear, I am a linux (mint
18.1) virgin and a sound noob. In trying to figure out how to record more than one line
at a time I am arriving at JACK, only to find it is apparently either member only or
invitation only website. Not knowing the protocol here, I am asking:1. How can I get
invited/allowed to get JACK to try and learn what all it can do to/for me?2. If I can get
the invitation, I need to know how to physically install it as nothing like JACK is in the
mint software manager unless one counts the 12 or so things that appear to be addins to
JACK. There is no actual installer that I see which makes complete sense if this is a
somewhat restricted software.3. Can you inform me of what software will best handle more
than one line in? Audacity, which is all I have ever used I thought powerful until I
realize it will handle only one input.
As background last night I did get some of the things off the repository of mint like
QJackCtL, and Jack Rack. What I saw was that QJackCtlL turns off any sound that is being
played/recorded the instant I selected any button on the window. Not a great start.
I will and do appreciate whatever help I receive from you and Thank you in
advance.Richard Clary
6 Jun
6 Jun
11:20 a.m.
Hi Richard,
consider to subscribe to "Linux-audio-user -- A list for linux audio
users" https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user and to
repeat your request, since this is the best mailing list for novices to
get the kind of help you need.
Mint isn't an official Ubuntu flavour, but it much likely does use most
packages from the official Ubuntu and official Ubuntu flavour
repositories.
There is a package search for the repositories,
https://packages.ubuntu.com/ .
Regarding https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_serena_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
your release of Mint seems to be based upon Ubuntu xenial (16.04LTS)
[1].
Since you installed qjackctl, the jackd package which depends on jackd2
or jackd1 already should be installed. A dialog should have asked you
to configure jackd, but lets focus on this after you subscribed to the
Linux-audio-user mailing list.
Just in case, you could install
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/jackd2 or
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/jackd1 after opening a terminal, by
running
sudo apt update && sudo apt install jackd2
The pros and cons of jackd1 and jackd2 are unimportant at the moment,
as a starting point jackd2 is a good, but not necessarily the
better choice. It depends on a few things what version to chose,
however, there are reasons that jackd2 often is preferred.
Audacity has a few pitfalls, so it's better to use another app. What
app depends a lot on your needs.
First of all you should install
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/linux-lowlatency and
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/rtirq-init , in other words, from
command line (a terminal) run
sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-lowlatency rtirq-init
After installing the new kernel you need to boot the new kernel.
If repeat your request to the Linux-audio-user mailing list post the
command line output of
lsb_release -a
uname -rm
id
grep -v "#" /etc/security/limits.conf
cat /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf
/etc/init.d/rtirq status
grep RTIRQ_NAME_LIST /etc/default/rtirq
aplay -l
arecord -l
amidi -l
Regards,
Ralf
[1]
"Main components
Linux Mint 18.1 features Cinnamon 3.2, MDM 2.0, a Linux kernel 4.4 and
an Ubuntu 16.04 package base."
12:55 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:32:27PM +0000, RICHARD A CLARY wrote:
Hello! As a person who only knows for sure that sound
goes in the
ear, I am a linux (mint 18.1) virgin and a sound noob. In trying
to figure out how to record more than one line at a time I am
arriving at JACK, only to find it is apparently either member
only or invitation only website. Not knowing the protocol here,
I am asking:1. How can I get invited/allowed to get JACK to try
and learn what all it can do to/for me?2. If I can get the
invitation, I need to know how to physically install it as
nothing like JACK is in the mint software manager unless one
counts the 12 or so things that appear to be addins to JACK.
There is no actual installer that I see which makes complete
sense if this is a somewhat restricted software.3. Can you
inform me of what software will best handle more than one line
in? Audacity, which is all I have ever used I thought powerful
until I realize it will handle only one input.
Ardour (http://ardour.org) is probably what you're looking for.
You can use it with or without JACK. There's an Ardour forum if
you need help.
As background last night I did get some of the things
off the
repository of mint like QJackCtL, and Jack Rack. What I saw
was that QJackCtlL turns off any sound that is being
played/recorded the instant I selected any button on the
window. Not a great start.
I'm not a Mint user, but I'm guessing that if you have QJackCtl
you will also have JACK installed already (look for jackd, jackd1
or jackd2 package). Try typing "man jackd" on the command line
and see if the jackd manpage is displayed.
If you use Ardour it has its own JACK-aware connection manager.
Hope this helps.
John
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