I've done almost all of my recording with Audacity, as I've noted before. Though I don't post much of it here, as you can tell. I've found that while Audacity is good, it's not so great for fine controls. I have to record everything myself currently, so there are long lags at times between the recording start and the song start. Same is true for song end, and the end of recording. That's all well and good, however I'm not going to post all of that extra noise here. That's just silly, none of you want to listen to me putting down the guitar/bass! :-p
Which brings me to the point. JACK is a great audio server in the OSS area of software, well supported and actively developed. Ardour is very high end compared to most applications out there. Neither is simple in anyway, you really have to know what you're doing to get them to play nice together. As is always the case with more and more complex software. I've learned more and more how to get JACK running, and figuring out how it's configured. Sadly though I'm still missing something. Either I can record with it, but not play it back until I make changes to the default settings. Or I can hear it, but not record. Fun fun fun.
What I think needs to happen here is that either I'm going to have to spend a huge amount of time figuring out how to tweak the USB cabling from the amp (LightSnake people .. get one!) or just break down and purchase a PC sans sound card so that the default setup for audio will not be there. Leaving me to configure it from the ground up. However, I know some of you have probably done this before, so if you have pass on your tips. Based on what I'm reading about JACK there is almost no difference between the Windows ports, Mac ports, and Linux ports. All on the user level and way configurations are done should be the same. The underlying elements differ because of the way audio is done in each operating system.
Welp it's been fun, now I think I'm going to go lay down then call some hospitals. Or perhaps I'll just go and try and get JACK/Ardour to work some more. Which ever is less painful.
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