| 20 Jul 2022 |
 Chris McDonough | i never was much good at jack config but this is what qjackctl looks like when i have ams running (under 22.05 channel) and qjackctl with a generic midi controller (CTRL) plugged in | 20:06:23 |
 sjfloat | Yeah | 20:06:24 |
| Chris McDonough | i cant seem to make the arrows pointy bits stick heh | 20:06:41 |
| Chris McDonough | but anyway if you want me to try anything lmk | 20:06:56 |
| sjfloat | 
Download qpwgraph.png | 20:08:01 |
| sjfloat | This is qpwgraph, the pipewire offering for patching. It does what I need, so far. Pretty much like qjackctl | 20:09:04 |
| sjfloat | Now I need to figure out how session management is handled now. | 20:09:48 |
| sjfloat | Some of these patches get really crazy. I don't want have to wire it up manually in a gui each time. | 20:10:20 |
| sjfloat | I wonder if the same tools that worked with jack still do. | 20:10:39 |
| Chris McDonough | i think so | 20:11:18 |
| sjfloat | That would make me happy. | 20:11:35 |
| sjfloat | So maybe tonight I'll started down the list again of apps and things I was doing before and see where I stand. | 20:12:04 |
| sjfloat | For modular soft synths though, ams is the sweet spot for me. I don't really care about the eye candy. | 20:12:53 |
| Chris McDonough | truth be told, i tend to just select presets, i am not much of a make-my-own-noise guy :) | 20:13:49 |
| sjfloat | Is everything you like to use working for you right now? | 20:14:12 |
| Chris McDonough | i used harrison mixbus for many years (it's a fork of ardour, and closed source,that doesn't work clearly, but it's not difficult to replace) | 20:15:27 |
| Chris McDonough | and other stuff i just haven't tried yet tbh | 20:15:42 |
| Chris McDonough | i punted to my mac lol | 20:15:49 |
| sjfloat | I'm kind of minimal in terms of UI. I used ecasound for a long time before moving to Ardour. | 20:16:44 |
| Chris McDonough | any tool is probably too much tool for me honestly, i just mess around :) | 20:17:25 |
| Chris McDonough | the thing i tend to overuse most is a roland rc-505 looper, which is super convenient for recording stuff without any daw in sight | 20:18:15 |
| sjfloat | NIce | 20:18:35 |
| Chris McDonough | that doesnt work out of the box on linux but a kernel patch fixes it | 20:18:40 |
| sjfloat | Like, the editor for it? | 20:19:02 |
| Chris McDonough | as an alsa device... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_s2lLHRgM | 20:19:44 |
| Chris McDonough | its both pcm input and a midi device | 20:20:32 |
| Chris McDonough | i usually just set it up to be the master midi clock and use the knobs to adjust tempo, thats all the midi is good for to me | 20:21:06 |
| sjfloat | Oh, OK. | 20:21:31 |
| 21 Jul 2022 |
| sjfloat | I had a thought about testing some of these audio tools and configurations. Seems like we could use a combination of `nix-shell` and `wireplumber` to pull dependencies and arrange things so the utility under test could be run. | 11:41:10 |
| sjfloat | If pipewire is the future, then so is wireplumber, I guess. So we need to get our heads around that. | 11:43:03 |
