[LAU] Session management tools (was: Re: DC offset)

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Joel Roth <joelz(a)pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:09:46PM -1000, david wrote: > > On 01/30/2012 11:49 PM, thijs van severen wrote: > > > > >2012/1/31 david> > > > > > > On 01/30/2012 07:38 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > > > > BTW, regarding Audacity, the way it behaves w.r.t. Jack is > > > completely > > > wrong - those ports should exist as soon a the track is created. > > > Complain > > > to the Audacity developers ! > > > > > > And the ports disappear when you hit Audacity's stop button. > > > > > >isn't this also the way that VLC has implemented jack ports ? > > >really annoying :-( > > > > I don't know - don't use VLC. > > > > Could session management tools be set up to react to the appearance > > of Audacity's ports (I think they're always named the same) and > > reconnect them? > > There are related issues with Ecasound. > > Configuring the audio engine and connecting the engine with > external resources are separate steps. JACK ports are > created in the second step. Once created, these ports > are maintained regardless of transport state. > > For Nama, which uses Ecasound, I'm also hoping that session > management will help. Nama retains state information, such > as project name, that Ecasound does not. > > Is there any movement to make JACK session tools available > to programs written in scripting languages? MMA, written > in Python for example, could also benefit... > > -joel

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