<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pd-dev@iem.at <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:53 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PD-dev] jack dbus?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>[...]<br><br>>Personally, I'd appreciate if Pd would support pulseaudio. If Pd covers<br>>many backends, it is easy for package maintainers to package Pd with<br>>default suitable for the
specific distro. In my opinion, it would be<br>>sane to let Pd default to pulseaudio in Ubuntu.<br><br>Curious here how low the latency could get before dropouts.<br><br>>Actually, using JACK is already quite easy today, even in the pulseaudio<br>using distros. When I start JACK from qjackctl, pulseaudio is<br>immediately stopped and frees the device. So I don't see much room for<br>improvement there.<br><br>You have to manually start another program before opening the program<br>you want to use.<br><br>> Routing pulseaudio to JACK is already quite easy, but I wouldn't want it<br>to happen automatically. Imagine during a performance I'd accidentally<br>click on a link and Firefox would start to play some Youtube movie on my<br>x channel setup.<br><br>With qjackctl you could just uncheck the "Use dbus" checkbutton and/or<br>load a patchbay setting specifically for the performance. I don't think<br>there's anything wrong with taking steps
to prepare a system for a<br>performance-- I'd just like to have as few steps as possible for getting<br>(quality) sound in all kinds of multitasking situations.<br><br>-Jonathan<br><br>>Another a smallish issue I experienced with pulse->Jack<br>is that the volume keys of my laptop only control the master volume of<br>pulse and thus do not control the actual device anymore.<br><br>Roman<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Pd-dev mailing list<br><a href="" ymailto="mailto:Pd-dev@iem.at">Pd-dev@iem.at</a><br><a href="" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>