On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:36:20 +0800 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes, but portaudio (19) is there so I would have thought that the debian guys would have made sure this was all working. I have now tried this on a totally different machine (that I don't normally use for music at all) with exactly the same result :( -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

Philipp Überbacher wrote: Yes here as well (ubuntu) I gave up trying to use audacity with jack a long time ago... And actually gave up very much using it at all. Lorenzo

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:43:15 +0200 Pablo <pablo.fbus(a)gmail.com> wrote: This is the workaround I've used as well, but it's a nuisance. There was some talk a few years ago about the devs doing a 'proper' jack implementation, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside. B.T.W. looking around, I see a number of people are reporting the same, or similar issues. Up to now I've run away from using Ardour because it's severe overkill for the audio work I do, and has a horrendously steep learning curve. It looks like I might be forced to go that way after all :( -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

Hi there, I never had any DAW experience before ardour nor did I have any sound "engineering" experience whatsoever. I was just and still am a musician / composer. I never found ardour "horrendously" difficult to use but maybe, since you are familiar with audacity, you expect both softwares to provide the same kind of functionality. If such is your expectation, you will be "disappointed": Ardour is no sound editor, it's a DAW. Audacity is more an audio editor which happens to have some multitracking capability. In short, each software has a different purpose. I rarely use audacity since I am doing multitracking and DAW work. But to quickly retouch an audio file, I find it convenient. No need of jack for this. But on my DAW PC, since jack is running all the time, audacity via portaudio is doing what I expect it to do, namely output sound through jack when its transport is activated. But I would not integrate it into more complex jack graph setup because of its portaudio dependence. Take the time to learn ardour, believe me, the time will be well spent, unless you are not into DAW work but audio editing. Cheers! J.

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Lorenzo <lsutton(a)libero.it> wrote: Why would you need real-time capabilities for editing anyway? I would think that it's pretty useless unless you're recording? Arve

It gets worse :( There's another update for audacity, so having nothing to loose I tried it. The result now is that when jack is running audacity doesn't see any sound system at all, not even the corrupted (non working) one it thought it had before. Straight to ALSA still works as normal. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.