jack_mixer is a GTK+ JACK audio mixer app with a look & handling similar to hardware mixing desks. It has lot of useful features, apart from being able to mix multiple JACK audio streams.
It is licensed under GPL version 2 (or later), check the file COPYING for more information.
This is LADI variant of jack_mixer. More than 10 years after the original author gave up of the project maintenance to communty, user experience under lash or ladish was degraded in series of commits while promoting nonsm/newsm/raysession as replacement. The complaints in recent years by original author were ignored and or rejected by currently active developers/maintainers.
This unfortunate state of affairs led the original author of jack_mixer, Nedko Arnaudov, into getting back on maintaing jack_mixer, starting with version 18.
The LADI jack_mixer project is bound to principles like diversity, as outlined in Ubuntu Code of Conduct.
Here is list of regressions in the community version to be (or aleady) fixed:
- removal of pylash support in same commit that adds nsm protocol support.
- prefixing of all log messages with
[jack_mixer]messages (already fixed, by revert, but change can be made non-monoculturlistic and then reapplied).
You can find the community version at https://rdio.space/jackmixer/
To build and install jack_mixer run:
meson setup builddir --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release
meson compile -C builddir
[sudo] meson install -C builddirPlease read the file INSTALL.md for more information and requirements.
MIDI Control Change messages (CCs) can be used to control volume, balance/panorama, mute, and solo of input and output channels.
The default controllers for added channels are chosen using a predefined algorithm: the first free controller starting from #11, first for volume, next for balance/panorama, then mute and finally solo.
So, if you don't delete channels, CC#11 will control the first channel's volume, CC#12 the balance/panorama, CC#13 the mute and CC#14 the solo switch. CC#15 will control the second channel' volume, CC#16 it's balance/panorama, and so on.
It is also possible to set other CCs when creating a channel, or afterwards from the channel properties dialog (accessible from the menu or by double clicking on the channel name).
MIDI CC values (0-127) are mapped to dBFS using the current slider scale for the corresponding channel.
jack_mixer was written and is supported by Nedko Arnaudov. For a list of contributors see the file AUTHORS.
K-meter implementation taken from jkmeter, licensed under the GPL 2, by Fons Adriaensen.
For related discussions, you are invited to join Libera.Chat channel #ladi
If you want to get involved with jack_mixer's development, documentation or translation, please read the contributing guide.