I'm trying to record sound from my piano which only has 'headphones' audio output (as well as loudspeakers), so there is no USB for things like MIDI. Thus I connect the piano to my computer using a double jack cable.
I tried to record with Audacity, but I'm not able to get any sound to my computer through the jack cable : at first I only had pulse (and default) as input sources.
I installed pulseaudio-module-jack but that didn't help. Then I installed Ardour5 (that doesn't work at all, but that's not the point of this question) which automatically installed qjackctl, but the only way I found to launch JACK was to change the default configuration : I had to change the Input and Output devices from (default) to hw:PCH.
So now I can select JACK Audio Connection Kit instead of ALSA in Audacity, but the input sources either are system, which gives nothing else than the built-in microphone output, or PulseAudio JACK Sink, which doesn't work at all (Audacity only shows a flat line).
Is there something wrong with how I configured qjackctl ? Or is there any other tool to record audio from the jack ?
Notes :
- I tried this, but without success ;
- I'm talking here about inputs shown in Audacity, but I checked the Input section under Settings > Sound, as well as PulseAudio Volume Control, there were no other sources.
1 Answer
So - there's an oddity in Ardour: If you have jackd running in an attempt to use realtime mode, Ardour will fail. And if you start jack from Ardour, Ardour will always try to start with realtime mode enabled...
The solution to this is to force jackd to start without realime enabled. The easy way to do this, is to use qjackctl and in it's setup, un-check the realtime mode checkbox:
