[PD] Linux script to launch JACK and Pd at once

[Marco Donnarumma]

yep Ladish does that too, never tried though.

Just to satisfy my curiosity, how far can we go using scripts? Would it be
> possible to launch Pd and write a patch from scratch directly from a
> script?


Pierre, I reckon it would be easier to do from with a Pd patch.
Usually, scripts are useful to me when I have to handle multitask sessions
or anyway do something which is a little related to Pd.
But I'm not at all script expert.

M



On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Ricardo Lameiro
<ricardolameiro at gmail.com>wrote:

> doesnt Ladish does that? (http://ladish.org/)
>
> What do you mean with turn audio on at startup? on Pd? you can send a
> loadbang to a message to turn the dsp on... but maybe that isnt what you
> want...
>
> 2011/1/17 Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com>
>
>> Thank you Marco, but I don't need to run many apps. What does the "exit"
>> do though?
>>  I'd be interested in a command that would turn the audio on at startup, i
>> don't know whether this is possible.
>>
>> Just to satisfy my curiosity, how far can we go using scripts? Would it be
>> possible to launch Pd and write a patch from scratch directly from a script?
>>
>>
>> Thanks again for your help.
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>> 2011/1/17 Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com>
>>
>> Hi Pierre,
>>> also the -p argument is quite useful if you use multiple soundcard (like
>>> travel setup, studio, etc...), as it allows to choose which profiles you
>>> want jack to load.
>>>
>>> Using many applications for one project, I found useful the following
>>> script.
>>>
>>> First, I have one folder where to save all different software patches
>>> included in a project.
>>> I keep one unique name for several file formats, so I can use the script
>>> below to launch a studio setup at once indicating the project name as a
>>> variable $1.
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> #! /bin/bash
>>>
>>> qjackctl -s -p FocusriteSaffire40 &
>>> sleep 5
>>>
>>> ardour2 ../ardour/$1/$1.ardour &
>>> hydrogen $1.h2song &
>>> zynaddsubfx -l $1/$1.xmz &
>>> seq24 --file $1/$1.midi &
>>>
>>> exit
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 03:03:34PM +0100, Pierre Massat wrote:
>>>> > I used the one published by Joao Pais, that is:
>>>> >
>>>> > #!/bin/bash
>>>> >
>>>> > qjackctl -s & sleep 5 & pdextended
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > I'd be grateful if someone could tell me what "-s" means, by the way.
>>>>
>>>> $ man qjackctl
>>>> [...]
>>>>  -s, --start
>>>>    Start JACK audio server immediately
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> $ exit
>>>> --
>>>>  Frank Barknecht            Do You RjDj.me?          _ ______
>>>> footils.org
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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