Hi Guenter,
guenter geiger wrote:
Thomas Charbonnel, maintainer of the RME HDSP driver told me at the ZKM meeting that it would not pay off to include ALSA support for the HDSP in PD, because JACK is working perfectly and offers so many advantages.
I would like to suggest that you disregard Thomas' advice. ALSA is now standard for 2.6 kernels, and throwing away the choice of using it straight seems like only limiting options rather than giving advantages.
Two examples:
- Basic: new users just trying out PD and/or Linux might not have
everything configured for properly using Jack. In fact, when doing workshop with all the kinds of cheap hardware and crappy motherboard soundcards you usually get at workshops, there have been plenty of times when Jack simply would not run at all! Forcing these people to rely on the emulation of a depreciated sound system doesn't really sound like such a good idea.
- Advanced: what if I wanted to use PD + HDSP for an installation, for
example, which autostarts if the computer for some reason gets rebooted? Instead of a simple prompt to open PD, I would have to make a whole shell script to start the jack daemon, then start PD, then connect all the ports in Jack *before* starting the DSP in PD. Not much advantage there...
And for the record, I get the same exact stream of PD watchdog messages, which I have posted to this list already, as Tim does with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
ok... I think I have run out of technical problems to complain about to this list tonight ;-) Think I'll go to bed, and get back to making noise tomorrow.
Best, d.