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#JACK2 FOR ARDOUR FOR WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#
#JACK2 FOR ARDOUR FOR WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#
#JACK2 FOR ARDOUR FOR WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#

Lexicon Omega: Allows me to record something, while.Motherboard’s internal soundcard: Allows me to play something trough the speakers, while.Hardware (1) In this setup, I use 3 sound cards: Indeed, PA manages the sound for my system in general, I use it for everything from gaming to listen to multicast RTP streams, and it seems that PA and Jack tend to struggle to share the same interface. One other LibreMusicProduction’s article is great, but I struggled with one tiny issue called PulseAudio.Various packages allow to start and manage Jack, I heard a lot of good from Cadence (out of the kxstudio suite), however I will stick to what I know: qjackctl. Now that you know what Jack is and that you have chosen (and hopefully installed) the version that is right for your case, it is time to start jack.

One critical thing to add to this awesome article, is that there are two versions of Jack (1 and 2), none being better, they are just different, please read Jack1 VS Jack2.

Jack is probably the most central piece of a Linux Studio, seriously… no Jack no fun!!! For a complete definition, check Google – in a simplistic view, “Jack is a real time sound server, allowing to connect various instruments, programs, effects, …” I encourage you to read Demystifying JACK – A Beginners Guide to Getting Started with JACK from (this article is partly redundant of that one). From here on, we will assume that you have a real time kernel running. Depending on what you want to record, you might really want to buy an external sound card (or two) as we will see later.

#JACK2 FOR ARDOUR FOR WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#

So first things first… Use your distro’s forums/Wikis/…, and find out how to enable a real time kernel! It is useless going any further before you get this working!

One thing you absolutely need, if you want things to work later, is a real time kernel (this is one of the core differences of the “studio” distros).

#JACK2 FOR ARDOUR FOR WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#

The quickest way to get recording with Linux would definitely be to install a dedicated studio distro, like Ubuntu Studio, KXStudio or AVLinux, but on the one hand, I wanted the studio to be available in my everyday’s distro (gentoo), and on the other hand, I like to have “tailor made”, optimised applications. Indeed, installing a studio by hand like I did might require to get your hands dirty. Is it worth the effort for you?īefore we start delving into understanding and installing the required components, it might be interesting to consider whether it is the right solution for you. Anyway, here’s how I setup my sound studio with Linux (I use Gentoo/X86_64). This guide is not guaranteed to work, it is what happens to work for me and is provided as-is, with no guarantees whatsoever.

#JACK2 FOR ARDOUR FOR WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#

Some software parts will be mentioned in the hardware part, it might be usefull to read this guide twice!ĭISCLAIMER: I’m not working in IT nor in music, these are hobbies, I’m not affiliated to any product or vendor that might be listed on this page, just posting my used experience about those.

Anyway, I decided to regroup the software I use and some interesting links on this page. It was a bit more complex from what I remembered (probably cause I did in 2 days, I what last time took me over 3 years), but after a few hundreds of posts and forums read, it’s all working great again. As I recently reinstalled my new computer, I had the chance to reinstall (and improve) my audio studio.