PATCHAGE(1)

📦 version 1.0.6, in nixos 26.05

🎛️ PATCHAGE(1) — the girlies' guide to patchage

okay so you opened patchage(1) from the General Commands Manual and you're like "what is this" — bestie, sit down, I got you 💅

✨ NAME ✨

patchage — the icon, the legend, the one that lets you graphically connect JACK and ALSA Audio and MIDI ports. no cap, that's literally her whole job 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

patchage [OPTION]...

that's it. that's the whole vibe check ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — Patchage gives you a graphical interface to connect JACK and ALSA inputs and outputs. yes, visually. with a canvas and everything. it's giving art class but make it audio routing 🎨

Every application shows up on the canvas as a "module" — and the way it's laid out?? inputs on the left, outputs on the right. iconic, consistent, easy on the eyes 👑

And you can arrange those modules manually or automatically so you get a clear display of your current setup. lowkey the auto-arrange is the main character energy here, but you do you 🦋

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

  • -A, --no-alsa — do not automatically attach to ALSA. nope. not today. not on her watch 🙈
  • -h, --help — prints the command line options and then exits. the "help me help you" of flags 💀
  • -J, --no-jack — do not automatically attach to JACK. respectfully declining, fr fr 🙅‍♀️
  • -V, --version — prints version information and exits. the little "hi, this is me" moment 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Patchage was written by David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> — the founder of the feast, the blueprint, the original 💜 we stan 🫶

ok real talk though: this is a General Commands Manual entry for PATCHAGE(1), version dated 29 Nov 2020 — so if some newer feature isn't here, that's why, don't come for me 😭

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap, go route some ports 🧚‍♀️🔌 slay ✨

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