[PD] pd and jack, informal survey

[Michal Seta]

I have been using pd with jack (in linux) extensively for the past n
years.  There are issues once in a while and some pd versions work
well while others not so well.  However, in my experience, pd causes
the most xruns (compared to other jackified apps) and also,
occasionally, causes some weird i/o sync hick-up in the jack graph.
Overall, it has not let me down in the jack area but it sure could use
a little improvement.

On the upside, however, IIRC pd has never been zombified by jack or
otherwise "unhooked" from the jack server.

Currently I am on feisty (actually, the ubuntustudio variety),
2.6.20-16-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT, Pd version
0.40.2-extended-2007-05-21.

Still, for mission critical situations, the (deprecated) oss (in alsa
emulation mode) is the way to go, unless the alsa support is in good
enough shape (as suggested by IOhannes).

./MiS

On 6/10/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> James wrote:
> > i'd like to take an informal survey. is it true that you can do no
> > serious work with puredata using the jack audio server for linux and mac
> > os x?
>
> i don't (using x86/x86_64 platforms running debian gnu/linux)
> but i used to (we had a rather big opera-project using pd-0.37 (i
> think), where the alsa-support in pd was so bad that we had to use jack;
> since alsa is now workable (again) i have no reason to use jack)
>
> and 2 weeks ago i visited orm finnendahl and he successfully and (
> believe) seriously uses pd+jack on ubuntu (was it feisty? at least
> something very recent)
>
>
> gfmasd.r#
> IOhannes
>
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