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

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:15:11 +0100
Peter Nelson <peter@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> 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.

This seems to be the same for every port audio app, so it should be as
simple as changing portaudio and getting the code out, right?
There are so many people who are annoyed by this, is there a reason why
it hasn't happen yet?
Where are the portaudio devs?

Philipp
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