> >    Also, I do presume that you are running at least
> >0.9.6 for Alsa, 0.8
> >for jack, and something close to whatever the Ardour page
> >says the
> >newest release is
>
> Sorry - too many versions <G>: .9x for Ardour, jack is
> .80, alsa .97 (actually whatever the latest unmasked
> ebuild which is .97 I believe.

Just make sure it's 0.9beta8 as some of the more recent revisions have been
crashing

>
> At this point I'm using the xfs-sources.

And I just use gentoo-source. It's worked fine for me, but I don't need the
real-time stuff on this box.

> >
> I used jackd -v -d alsa -d hw:0.  Jackstart doesn't exist
> on the Gentoo install.  I thought I'd get it working, then
> try other features.

Perfect, but you will want the -r 44100 option when you start working with
CDs (if that's what you're still planning on doing) as the default frequency
for Jack is 48K.


> >Good luck! I'm surprised you went with Ardour, vs.
> >ReZound or Audacity.
>
> Actually I'm still testing.  I merged Audacity and Ardour,
> did some work in Audacity (recorded an Ogg file from a CD
> track) and am now playing with Ardour.  I looked at the
> ReZound site and one other you mentioned in your email
> (can't remember the name) also and will probably try them,
> too.  Ardour looks real cool - like a real system.

Ardour is pretty deep in what it's trying to accomplish. It's one of the
best audio programs around in the Linux space, but it needs to mature a bit.
Folks like you can help!



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