.TH JALV 1 "18 Feb 2017"

.SH NAME
.B jalv \- Run an LV2 plugin as a JACK application (console version).

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B jalv [OPTION]... PLUGIN_URI

.SH OPTIONS

.TP
\fB\-b SIZE\fR
Buffer size for plugin <=> UI communication.

.TP
\fB\-c SYM=VAL\fR
Set control value (e.g. "vol=1.4").

.TP
\fB\-d\fR
Dump plugin <=> UI communication.

.TP
\fB\-U URI\fR
Load the UI with the given URI.

.TP
\fB\-h\fR
Print the command line options.

.TP
\fB\-i\fR
Ignore input on stdin (for background use).

.TP
\fB\-l DIR\fR
Load state from state directory.

.TP
\fB\-n NAME\fR
Jack client name

.TP
\fB\-p\fR
Print control output changes to stdout.

.TP
\fB\-s\fR
Show plugin UI if possible.

This option only works when plugins provide a UI that is usable via the non-embeddable showHide interface.  For other, embeddable UIs, use jalv.gtk(1) or jalv.qt(1).

.TP
\fB\-t\fR
Print trace messages from plugin

.TP
\fB\-x\fR
Use only exact Jack client name, and exit if it is taken

.SH COMMANDS

The Jalv prompt supports several commands for interactive control:

  \fBhelp\fR              Display help message
  \fBcontrols\fR          Print settable control values
  \fBmonitors\fR          Print output control values
  \fBpresets\fR           Print available presets
  \fBpreset URI\fR        Set preset
  \fBset INDEX VALUE\fR   Set control value by port index
  \fBset SYMBOL VALUE\fR  Set control value by symbol
  \fBSYMBOL = VALUE\fR    Set control value by symbol

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR jalv.gtk(1),
.BR jalv.gtkmm(1),
.BR jalv.qt(2),
.BR lv2ls(1),
.BR jackd(1)

.SH AUTHOR
jalv was written by David Robillard <d@drobilla.net>
.PP
This manual page was written by Jaromír Mikes <mira.mikes@seznam.cz>
and David Robillard <d@drobilla.net>