Re: [LAU] Recording just input 3-4 in Audacity

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:02 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:32:15PM +0200, HamRadio wrote:
>
> > how can I make a stereo recording in audacity with *only* input 3
> and 4?
> > I'm only able to get these signals if I start a project containing 4
> > tracks, thus having also 1 and 2 which of course are silent.
> > Perhaps I have to route 3 and 4 in some way that they appear on 1
> and 2?
> > And how?
>
> With Jack you can route signals exactly as you want them.
> Just start qjackctl.
>
> Unless Audacity insists on makeing the wrong connections
> itself and you can't disable that. In which case I'd dump
> it immediately and use something else (e.g. Ardour).

Audacity uses PortAudio in a 'device centric' way. Therefore, it does
automatically make the wrong connections, and it starts or stops the
audio 'device' whenever you start or stop recording or playback, so you
can't connect the ports you want and start it going...

Peter.

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Received on Tue Oct 13 16:15:02 2009