https://github.com/swh/timemachine

A JACK aplication that can retrospectively record audio.
https://github.com/swh/timemachine

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A JACK aplication that can retrospectively record audio.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/swh/timemachine
• Owner: swh
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2008-11-29T11:43:40.000Z (almost 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-06-21T00:35:56.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-28T13:35:55.668Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/
• Size: 104 KB
• Stars: 73
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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# TimeMachine

I used to always keep a minidisc recorder in my studio running in a mode where

when you pressed record it wrote the last 10 seconds of audio to the disk and

then caught up to realtime and kept recording. The recorder died and haven't

been able to replace it, so this is a simple jack app to do the same job. It

has the advantage that it never clips and can be wired to any part of the jack

graph.

The idea is that I doodle away with whatever is kicking around in my studio

and when I heard an interesting noise, I'd press record and capture it,

without having to try and recreate it. :)

## Building

This app requires:

* JACK

* GTK+ 2.x

* libsndfile

and optionally:

* LASH

* liblo

You will also need the -devel packages if you're using packages.

    ./configure

    make

    su -c "make install"

## Usage

Run it with "timemachine" then connect it up with a jack patchbay app. To

start recording click in the window, to stop recording click in the window

again.

It will create a file following tm-*.wav, with an ISO 8601 timestamp, eg

tm-2003-01-19T20:47:03.wav. The time is the time that the recording starts

from, not when you click.

## OSC

If you compiled with liblo, TimeMachine supports starting stopping via OSC,

triggered by sending a message with the path `/start` or `/stop` and no

arguments.

Example Python code:

    import liblo

    liblo.send(('localhost',7133), '/start')

    liblo.send(('localhost',7133), '/stop')

## Contact

You can report bugs through github at https://github.com/swh/timemachine