24 Jun
2010
24 Jun
'10
2:21 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 05:03:41AM +0100, Andrew C wrote:
Wow, thanks for the replies guys!
Of the software mentioned here, my biggest wish is for syncability with JACK
transport, so I can send the output of one of the linuxsampler instruments
to the recording software, hit the play button from inside Rosegarden and
have a perfectly synced audio copy of one particular instrument output which
I can then drop back into the sequencer timeline and continue with another
section of the song, thereby freeing up system resources.
Ecasound can probably meet your sync requirements.
According to the Ecasound User's Manual:
JACK's transport control interface allows controlling the
transport state of all the apps connected to one JACK server
from a single application. Ecasound can support this
functionality in four different modes ("notransport",
"send", "recv" and "sendrecv").
For Ecasound to respond to external transport controls, you
need to set:
-G:jack,eca_slave,recv # responds
or
-G:jack,eca_slave,sendrecv # sends as well as responds
Of course, this rules out jack_capture I'm
afraid!
I'll take a look at Ecasound/Nama, the tk interface for nama doesn't look
too bad and it's relatively lightweight.
Yours is a minority opinion on looks. :-)
Even this mother is not especially enamored of them.
To get the Tk interface via Debian, you'll need to:
apt-get install perl-tk
Or if by CPAN:
cpan Tk
To get Ecasound/Nama to respond to JACK transport you'll
need to set the configuration variables above in $HOME/.namarc
(created on the first run). I would suggest starting with:
ecasound_globals_default: "-z:mixmode,sum -G:jack,eca_slave,recv"
and deleting the line for 'ecasound_globals_realtime', which is
unnecessary.
Arnold, I can't find any link to time-machine as
audio recording software
via google, just as a filesystem snapshotting app.
Traverso is perhaps a bit overkill for my needs. Also, isn't audacity JACK
aware via pulse audio or somesuch?
FWIW, audacity clocks in at 54MB at startup, and
automatically detects (but does not start) JACK.
Did not test JACK transport sync.
Regards,
Joel
Thanks again,
Andrew
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Andrew C <countfuzzball(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I'm in a bit of dilemma here, my machine has only 1 GB of RAM and I'm
> running linuxsampler, rakarrack and bristol with rosegarden sequencing all
> of them together. As you can imagine, this does stretch my machine's
> resources a fair bit, so I find myself needing to bounce-to-audio. Any
> software out there that can do this relatively painlessly?
>
> This might be a bug in Rosegarden (10.04.2) or my version of jackdmp
> (1.9.6), but when I try to do it in Rosegarden, I found that the recorded
> audio tends to record previously recorded wav files and other such oddities.
> So I am looking for a relatively lightweight alternative or is this just a
> case of 'Yep, just use ardour!'?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew.
>
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Joel Roth