________________________________ From: Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com To: pd-dev@iem.at Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [PD-dev] jack dbus?
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Personally, I'd appreciate if Pd would support pulseaudio. If Pd covers many backends, it is easy for package maintainers to package Pd with default suitable for the specific distro. In my opinion, it would be sane to let Pd default to pulseaudio in Ubuntu.
Curious here how low the latency could get before dropouts.
Actually, using JACK is already quite easy today, even in the pulseaudio
using distros. When I start JACK from qjackctl, pulseaudio is immediately stopped and frees the device. So I don't see much room for improvement there.
You have to manually start another program before opening the program you want to use.
Routing pulseaudio to JACK is already quite easy, but I wouldn't want it
to happen automatically. Imagine during a performance I'd accidentally click on a link and Firefox would start to play some Youtube movie on my x channel setup.
With qjackctl you could just uncheck the "Use dbus" checkbutton and/or load a patchbay setting specifically for the performance. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking steps to prepare a system for a performance-- I'd just like to have as few steps as possible for getting (quality) sound in all kinds of multitasking situations.
-Jonathan
Another a smallish issue I experienced with pulse->Jack
is that the volume keys of my laptop only control the master volume of pulse and thus do not control the actual device anymore.
Roman
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