[ardour-users] where do i start]

[Wayne Myers]

I've just installed Debian sarge and have ardour, jack, and alsa
working fine, modulo my crappy hardware :). Maybe I can help.
  
> while i have apt-get install ardour, jack, alsa
> ardour still wont find jack

What do you mean by this? I'm wondering if you're trying to start
ardour without seperately starting jack, and having ardour barf
because it needs jackd to be running before it starts (and doesn't
start it itself if it isn't found because it has no way of guessing
what the correct way to start it will be, though, presumably, some
future version might be able to do that if it was told how explicitly).

I looked briefly at the documentation for jack
(http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/), but by that time
I'd already apt-got qjackctl; it's a GUI that starts jack for you
at the click of a button. Basically it sorts out the correct
command line to run jack with, and makes it really easy to play with
different options to get it running well, once you've got it running
at all.

What I do now is this: start qjackctl, hit the 'start jack' button, then
start ardour. First I'd had to tell qjackctl to use 'jackstart' not
'jackd', because I'd gone through the process described here:

http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php#a54

and enabled capabilities in the kernel, which I'd wanted to recompile
anyway to get the lowlatency patch version. (I didn't know then you
could just download one via Agnula as Derek described in his last
mail, and wonder if it also has the capabilities thing already in it
too). With capabilities you can start qjackctl (and ardour) as a normal
user instead of root. They both have to be running as the same user or
it won't work; obviously it's best not to run as root if possible.

But it sounds like you're wanting to get it running at all before you
start worrying about which user you're running it as. I found qjackctl
a great help in terms of sidestepping the 'can't get jack running'
problem; maybe you will too.

> PLEASE NOTE if you think in in over my head,askign too much please say
> so now ;)

Why should anyone think that?

Hope you get it all running soon.

Cheers,

Wayne

 


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