JACK_FREEWHEEL(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is JACK_FREEWHEEL(1), from the General Commands Manual — and jack_freewheel is a JACK toolkit client whose entire main-character job is controlling freewheeling mode. 💅✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

jack_freewheel [y|n]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

jack_freewheel turns freewheeling mode on with y or off with n. periodt. 💖

while you're in freewheeling mode, the JACK server does not wait in between process() calls, and it does not read or write data from/to any audio interface. that results in the JACK graph processing data as fast as possible. no cap. 🔥

freewheeling makes fast exports to files possible. slay. 🎀

ngl bestie, there is no useful reason to use this tool other than testing. JACK clients that use freewheeling will turn it on and off themselves. so this is giving testing-only energy, not a thing you need to micromanage. 💀

cute sign-off: this was JACK_FREEWHEEL(1), source/version 4, dated 2022 🫶🌈💜