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.

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.

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?

Thanks again,

Andrew


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Andrew C <countfuzzball@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.