Hi Miller,
On 10/30/2012 08:05 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Quick question... is this autoconnect problem only relevant to midi or does it also affect jack audio connections? I'd like to try to fix this but never use jack so am not sure where to start.
well, for MIDI I can live with the workaround suggested by Michael and elsewhere by IOhannes, but there is no such workaround to prevent JACK autoconnection afaik.
Pd should just not attempt autoconnection when using JACK, unless the ports to connect to have been explicitly configured by the user. JACK setups tend to be more complex than the usual first-2-channels-to-speakers assumption, so Pd _will_ guess wrong most of the time, sometimes with painfully loud and embarrassing results. No user-friendly JACK client should ever autoconnect without being asked to, because this effectively prevents JACK session managers from doing their job.
Something like this, maybe?:
pd -jack --> no connection
pd -jack -jackin system:capture_25 system:capture_26
-jackout system:playback_17 system:playback_18
system:playback_19 system:playback_20
--> connect to specified ports
having the same options in ~/.pdsettings would be great.
Best,
Jörn