On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:23 PM, yawfle <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't been using much linux-audio stuff for the past couple of years, but > the recent activity on this list inspired me to take another look at this fun > stuff. The session manager, timeline, and mixer all seemed to be quite solid > and stable, and I liked the responsive feel of the transport to keyboard > control very much. Didn't have quite as easy of a time using keyboard for the > mixer, but it's possible I just haven't figured it out yet. The major thing > that stumped me was how to import existing audio sources into the timeline. > As a last resort, I decided to RTFM and saw drag-n-drop mentioned, which > doesn't really work for my purposes. Is there another way that I'm missing, > short of editing the session file (which was actually very friendly looking, > I'll admit)? If there's a way to initiate an import via external command > (from mc or whatever) that would be even better. :) Oh, and will I run into > trouble mixing wav and flac sources, as long as they're all the same rate?
Currently, drag and drop is the only way. I do plan to add an import dialog. Although it's not complicated, it's not very high on the priority list. Note, however, that *every* graphical file manager supports XDND. You don't have to use a heavy-weight one. Even 'xfm' will do. As long as all the files have the same samplerate, you'll be fine. wave, ogg, flac, doesn't matter. However, playing back compressed files does incur significant CPU usage. > Also, I've never used a session manager previously, and was wondering if > there's a best practice for using NSM to start and stop jackd along with > everything else, particularly in the case where I'm using qjackctl for > plumbing, etc... any input appreciated. I don't have a recommendation. I keep jackd running, personally, and I keep things like a2jmidid running outside of any sessions. Note that jackd can be configured to autostart... > Oh, and since I'll be looking at the online docs over the next couple of > days, I'd be happy to fix minor typos etc. if granted wiki access. I noticed > at least one case of word doubling in my earlier perusal... The documentation itself is not in wiki format (yet?). If you want to edit it, check out the git repository and edit the */doc/MANUAL.mu files. I'll happily accept patches. I'm glad you're having fun!
