On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Daniel Worth <pipemanmusic@gmail.com> wrote:

This is easily solved with qjacktl's patchbay. It's clients like this that it was designed for.

http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/76

This looks very useful --- just what I was asking for.

However...

When I tried this a few days ago, firefox showed as alsa-jack.rawjackC(somenumber)
and audacity showed as portaudio(something)

Now both are showing as alsa-jack.rawjacksomething.

My .asoundrc file (which I dont pretend to understand) is thusly:

pcm.rawjack {
    type jack
    playback_ports {
        0 system:playback_1
        1 system:playback_2
    }
    capture_ports {
        0 system:capture_1
        1 system:capture_2
    }
}

pcm.jack {
    type plug
    slave { pcm "rawjack" }
    hint {
     description "JACK Audio Connection Kit"
    }
}

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave { pcm "rawjack" }
}