Automating UBS Setup for a project ...

[Mike Holstein]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>wrote:

> Am 08.01.2011 13:45, schrieb Rolf Krüger:
>
>  Hi All,
>>
>>
>> When producing a song, I always use several apps on UBS:
>>  - qjackctl
>>  - ardour (outs connected to jamin, not to my soundcards system out)
>>  - Muse (for Midi) (routing the outputs to busses in ardour, the outs of
>> muse are never connected to my soundcards system out)
>>  - Hydrogen (routing the outputs to busses in ardour, the outs of
>> hydrogen are never connected to my soundcards system out)
>>  - jamin (connected to the master outs of ardour, set to bypass during
>> recording/mixing, only acive when mastering)
>>
>> Is there a way to automate/script the setup for a song so that all apps
>> are up and running, have loaded the appropriate data files and routed
>> correctly by running a single shell script?
>>
>
> It is, though I did not find a way to put the apps on different virtual
> desktops. To start them is not that complicated:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #this is free software licenced under the GNU-GPL - please refer to the
> file Copying, that came with this script
> #checked and found to be working OK at the 18th of May 2006
> # start h2 and care for Jack
>
> kdialog --msgbox "This script will start the drumsequencer Hydrogen \n If
> you cannot hear anything and nothing goes on, you should check, if any
> Audioapplications are running, that do not use the Jack-Audioserver -
> closing those often helps a lot....";
>
> ps -C jackd >/dev/null&&( hydrogen --song $HOME/law/seq/simpelrock01.h2song
> &
> )||(
> aplay $HOME/law/samples/acgit1-Ee.wav;
> sleep 1 &&
> killall -9 qjackctl&
> kdialog --msgbox "jackd must be started first \n If jack has started,
> please click OK to start and connect H2";
> qjackctl -s hydrogen --song $HOME/law/seq/simpelrock01.h2song  &
> jamin &
> )
> sleep 1 &&
> if
> [ "ps ax|grep jamin" != 0 ]
> then
> jack_connect jamin:out_1 alsa_pcm:playback_1 ;
> jack_connect jamin:out_2 alsa_pcm:playback_2
> else
> echo kdialog --msgbox "Jamin is not started, try again."
> fi
>
> sleep 2 &&
> ardour /path/to_your_project &
> kdialog --msgbox "H2 should now be up, please refer to its helppage to find
> out more. \n If there is no H2-window, chances are, that your system did not
> provide the ressources to start the requested sequence fast enough so one or
> more of the needed programs timed out - try to close some other apps and/or
> consult the helpsystem to solve this... restart and enjoy." &
>
> This will not work, you have to check, where you need to adapt this to your
> wishes and environment (paths, project names)
>
> Since Ardour stores all ist jackconnections properly in its project-file,
> you only need to take care for the connection of jamin to the soundcard.
>
> best of luck ;-)
>
> HZN
>
>
>
>  I found out that I´m able to script jack and do the connections, but I
>> have no idea to have muse, hydrogen or jamin with the proper data files.
>>
>>
>> Thanx in advance
>> Rolf
>>
>>
>>
>
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ladish session manager is handy... http://ladish.org/

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