NAME
timemachine — JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use
SYNOPSIS
timemachine [-h] [-c <number of channels>] [-n <JACK client name>]
[-p <file prefix>]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the timemachine tool.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
timemachine writes the last 10 seconds of audio _before_ the button
press and everything from now on up to the next button press into a
WAV-file.
The idea is that you doodle away with whatever is kicking around in
your studio and when you heard an interesting noise, you’d press record
and capture it, without having to try and recreate it.
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.
It uses the JACK audio connection kit, an API that lets audio
application communicate with each other and share audio data in
realtime.
The generated file will be a W64 file, a valid but unusual WAV format
that might not be recognized by some programs. Binaries linked with
libsndfile should be able to read it. Also, note that the sample rate
of the file with be the same as the sample rate jackd is running at
when timemachine is started.
OPTIONS
-h Help: show available flags.
-c <number of channels>
Specifies the numer of channels to listen on, record and
write to the file. Valind numbers: 1-8, 2 is the default.
-n <jack-name>
Name with which to register as a JACK client. Defaults to
"TimeMachine".
-p <file prefix>
The prefix for WAV files to be written. Defaults to "tm-".
SEE ALSO
jackd(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Robert Jordens jordens@debian.org for
the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, Version 2. On Debian systems, the full text
of this license can be found in the file /usr/share/common-
licenses/GPL-2.