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More Carla Ins/Outs in Patchbay mode
is there a possibility to add more Ins and Outs to Carla in the Patchbay mode? would be very nice :) cheers
not dynamically, no. but right now you have:
- stereo
- stereo + extra input (sidechain)
- 16 (stereo) channels
- 32 (stereo) channels
is 32 stereo channels not enough?
oh great, 16 is enough already. :) but where can I configure it? thanks in advance! all the best
you don't configure it, you load a separate version that has the 16 outputs.
this is only for carla-patchbay plugin of course. rack mode is always stereo.
I don't get it exactly... how can I load such a version? If I go to Configure Carla I can only choose between single-mode, multi-mode, rack and patchbay.
those are the engine modes. the patchbay engine mode does work in stereo mode for JACK. I guess I can add extra options to customize the number of ports.
What I meant about the different versions was regarding carla as plugin. If you use carla in JACK multi-client mode you can add a "carla patchbay (16 channels)" plugin which will do what you want.
If you use carla in JACK multi-client mode you can add a "carla patchbay (16 channels)" plugin which will do what you want.
thats it :) thanks!
Chiming in late... yeah, it would be awesome to be able to configure an arbitrary number of jack ins and outs when Carla is running as a Jack host in patchbay mode.
Initial work for this in on the custom-patchbay-ports branch.
At least with the JACK driver, you can set any number of audio ports by running carla like this:
carla-patchbay --port-setup=8:2:1:1
in this case, 8 audio inputs and 2 audio ouputs, then 1 midi input and 1 midi output.
support for custom midi ins/outs is not done yet, but audio should be working.
Please excuse my ignorance.
I am trying to figure out how to use Carla with ambisonics sound and a cube speaker configuration. For that I need 8 final output channels and an ambisonics decoder (4 ins - 8 outs), plus a sound recording in WXYZ formt (.amb). If I do not use Carla it all works well (Jack+non-timeline+non-mixer as a decoder). If I add Carla and try to do the same patch configuration, Carla seems to eat my 8 channels and spit out stereo. I have been looking for the custom-patchbay-ports branch mentioned above and compiled it, but cannot find the above mentioned carla-patchbay executable.
What am I missing?
Ultimately I would be happy if I could use Carla's patchbay to do my sound routing with 4 inputs and 8 channels.
I have not merged that branch yet, some code was changed that makes it incompatible.
but if you are using carla's develop branch (the default now), you can already have what you mention by using:
carla-single carlapatchbay16
this is also not an issue if you use jack in multi-client mode. then you can load pretty much anything
Thank you so much! Carlapatchbay16 works well for the purpose as a plugin in Carla (multi-client). I can then add the ambisonics decoder in the patchbay.
Glad to know that works. For the purposes of saving (since it is running actually as a plugin, so it does not manage its own state), you can "kill" it with SIGUSR1 and it will trigger a save internally, dumping the file to the current folder. Next time you run the same command again, it will restore that session
Tried the "kill -SIGUSR1 processID" and sure enough, it asked me where to save. Not in your current directory though. Now I do not have to join channels by hand every time. Thank you a lot!
Hi Felipe,
Tagging onto this issue, perhaps somewhat Frankenstinely, I want to open a mono instance of carla-rack so that I can ensure that any plugins loaded aren't doing double the processing, is it also in the works to have the possibility for 1-in-1-out?
Many thanks, Arifd
I have not been working on this at all, but I suppose a 1x1 mode of patchbay would be supported when this is done, sure.
Would be great if i could add a 16x patchbay to a jack session manager instead of adding a carla instance then a 16x pach panel plugin
Sorry to revive this very very old thread! I'd like to run a 16x16 patchbay headless and control it via OSC (so I need to know the port used for OSC), is there a way to pass a specific OSC port to carla as a plugin?
export CARLA_OSC_UDP_PORT=11080 && carla-single carlapatchbay16 did not pass the port to the plugin, nor did export CARLA_OSC_UDP_PORT=11080 && jalv -s http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbay16.
Is there a way, or should I stick to the carla/single/multi executables?
