About guitarix

[efesel]

hi guys,i'm new to guitarix and this forum,i wanted to ask a question about the guitarix,can you play with backing tracks on it?

[tramp]

Hi efesel

Yes, you can, guitarix provide a plugin called LiveLooper, you can record with it, or load files into it and play them (in loop).
For use it to play backing tracks, just put it in the very last position in the rack and load your backing track in it.

Beside that, you can use any jack-aware player to play along with guitarix.

regards
hermann

[glowrak guy]

Look in your package manager for media players, vlc, xine, alsaplayer, audacious, mplayer (and it's variants)
may have jackd plugins avalable to install, and then set their audio preferences to use jackd.

Aqualung is a nice player, that keeps a persistant jackd connection,
some other players drop their connection when the signal stops.
Audacity and timemachine also can use jackd, so you can easily record
all the parts as desired, without running a daw app.
Cheers

[efesel]

Thank you for all the help guys

[folderol]

+1 for timemachine. it's an extremely lightweight recorder "Do just one thing and do it well"

[tramp]

+1 for timemachine. it's an extremely lightweight recorder "Do just one thing and do it well"

The question here is about playback, isn't it?
Otherwise, timemachine was widely used here for as well for capture sessions, . . . in the old days.

But now, you can do all this inside guitarix.
playback tracks, play to it, and record the session.
guitarix provide play and record plugs, to do all that at once.

[glowrak guy]

Can Guitarix record 24 bit .w64 files? That would be another big plus, for me at least.
Cheers

[tramp]

Can Guitarix record 24 bit .w64 files? That would be another big plus, for me at least.
Cheers

The guitarix recorder plug use libsndfile, so yes, it can.
Just, I'm personally haven't any use of the w64 format, so I haven't implemented it in the past.
Now, for your shake, I've done it and pushed it to git.
So the next release, or a checkout from git, will bring w64 format support in the guitarix recorder to you.

Code: Select all

sox --i ~/gxrecord/guitarix_session0.w64 

Input File     : '~/gxrecord/guitarix_session0.w64'
Channels       : 1
Sample Rate    : 48000
Precision      : 24-bit
Duration       : 00:00:45.07 = 2163456 samples ~ 3380.4 CDDA sectors
File Size      : 6.49M
Bit Rate       : 1.15M
Sample Encoding: 24-bit Signed Integer PCM

[glowrak guy]

Very nice! People recording long sessions, or long concerts, can also benefit,
being able to edit crowd-noise, band chatter, and room ambience etc
while remaining above CD quality, and 32bit users can avoid some file size limits.

Might even be a plus if a good linux video-editor with solid audio support, appears.
Thanks for adding the support.

Is GuitarDAW sketched out on the wipeboard yet? Almost there,
even if just by evolution.
Cheers