[Ardour-Users] jack and exporting

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe at d.umn.edu> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've noticed that while exporting a region in ardour, the sound from
>> jack (using xine to watch a movie) cuts out (mutes?)
>> The sound is working up until I press the "okay" button and returns
>> after the export is done.
>
> ardour does exports using a JACK feature called "freewheeling".
>
> in this context, JACK stops communicating with the backend and just
> runs the rest of the clients as fast as possible. no audio will be
> played or recorded via the hardware/backend.

Thanks for the quick response, Paul.

I'm guessing that there is no way to let other clients continue to
work as they had before the 'freewheeling' starts? (of course, that
question might be more tailored to a JACK mailing list.)

-matt zagrabelny