Using Audacity and Jack as a Mastering Suite on OSX

[glarbl_blarbl]

So I'm trying to see if Audacity will work as a mastering app by running it through Jamin, the open-source mastering program. I am able to get audio from Audacity to Jamin and from there to the system outs and back into Audacity with one glaring issue:

using portaudio and JackOSX, I can only route audio into a recording track in Audacity once the transport is running. The workaround I'm going to use is to shift my material forward about 10 seconds so I don't miss anything when I bounce, but it's pretty cumbersome to have to do this.

Ideally what I would envision here would be to be able to 'arm' tracks for record like Ardour and most other multi-track audio apps -- this way I could set up a recording track and route the outputs of Jamin to it while the transport is stopped and end up with a cleaner bounce file that I don't have to re-edit.

(I thought this might work: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 18&t=29963 but it's for the linux jack patchba; the manual for JackOSX doesn't say anything about being able to use regular expressions)

I have been using Ardour in the past for this task, but it's much more cumbersome for working on single files than Audacity is (which makes sense since it's designed for multi-track audio). I'd really like to be able to use Audacity for this since it seems better suited for this kind of use.

From what I understand, this issue is a limitation of Portaudio. So my question is: is this a pipe-dream, or is it possible that this functionality can be introduced into Audacity or Portaudio?

[steve]

I thought this might work: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=29963 but it's for the linux jack patchba; the manual for JackOSX doesn't say anything about being able to use regular expressions)

I don't think it says anything about using regular expressions on Linux either.
Another forum user suggested that regular expressions might work, and I took it from there and discovered how to apply regular expressions for the Portaudio ports in Audacity. Have you tried it on OSX?

Personally I think that Ardour is better suited for this type of thing.

[glarbl_blarbl]

My stumbling block was that I didn't realize I could interact with JackOSX from the command line (I'm assuming here actually since I haven't tried it, but it looks like jack_connect is the command I would want).

Of course now that I know that I'm inclined to agree with you that Ardour may be better suited for this, especially since I'm much more used to it as an interface

Thanks for your help!