Hi list,
For pd-list people, please skip down to #7 below...
A little confused. A few questions:
1) what's the difference between API_NONE and API_DUMMY? 2) are API_NONE and/or API_DUMMY available for all platforms? (macos, windows, gnu/linux) 3) if I make a ttk::combobox for choosing the api, shouldn't it have an option for selecting "None" or "Dummy" for the cases where that is what the user wants?
and less pressing (and can't remember if I already asked): 4) did s_audio_esd.c ever work? 5) if it did, what needs to be done to get it to work again? 6) has anyone substantiated the claims by pulse audio people that pulse is a drop-in replacement for esd?
And just curious: 7) Does anyone using GNU/Linux system want to use pulse-audio with Pd? The main reason would be easy software mixing-- for example, you could watch a tutorial on youtube and get sound out of a running instance of Pd without doing any configuration whatsoever. (At least that's what Pulse Audio claims-- I haven't used it so much.)
Thanks, Jonathan
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 13:43 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
And just curious: 7) Does anyone using GNU/Linux system want to use pulse-audio with Pd? The main reason would be easy software mixing-- for example, you could watch a tutorial on youtube and get sound out of a running instance of Pd without doing any configuration whatsoever. (At least that's what Pulse Audio claims-- I haven't used it so much.)
I think I would use pulseaudio most of the time with Pd in normal working/patching situations, i.e. not for live performances. The one thing that currently prevents me is the fact that 'pd -pa' takes almost a half minute to start. Portaudio (just to be clear: this is not related at all to pulseaudio) seems to scan all kind of audio devices, even on bluetooth and whatnot. This whole process slows down the start of Pd to a degree that renders -pa (and thus pulseaudio) useless for me. Let me also mention that this problem is not Pd specific. Also Audacity suffers from it.
If there would be (resp. I'd know of) a way to configure portaudio not to take so much time or if Pd would natively support pulseaudio, I'd use pulse with Pd for the reasons you mentioned.
Roman
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