Re: [LAU] jack session question

On 07/07/2011 09:45 AM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:23:54 +0200, "rosea.grammostola"
> <rosea.grammostola@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> On 07/07/2011 12:10 AM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>>>
>>> nope. qsynth has no jack-session support atm.
>>>
>>> theres a couple of reasons that sets it back in that regard: qsynth
>>> state is stored on a global user configuration file that doesn't depend
>>> nor change across sessions whatsoever. the other reason is that qsynth
>>> is a singleton. you can only have one instance running at anyone given
>>> time. starting a second instance just activates the first one. been like
>>> that for ages now, way before jack-session was ever the talk of the
>>> town ;)
>>>
>>> anyway, imo, the only advantage i can see to qsynth participate on a
>>> jack-session would be its automatic launch on session load.
>>
>> and the JACK connections. I can imagine that if Qsynth or app X has
>> its place between other JACK apps (which have JackSession support) in
>> a session, it would be quite cumbersome for making the JACK
>> connections, if that app X hasn't JackSession support (you could use
>> it as infra client maybe).
>>
>
> qjackctl session manager saves and restores connections of all clients
> event though clients aren't jack-session aware. upon session load,
> connections are made if those client is already running or whenever it
> gets started later on manually. as i often say, it just works like
> qjackctl's patchbay "limited-edition" or w/e ;)
>
> otoh, the auto-launch feature for non jack-session-aware clients would
> be the primary purpose of the infra-client mapping on the
> jack-session-manager side, right?

If what you're saying is right (didn't test it myself yet), then yes the
nice thing left besides JACK connections is auto-launch.

\r
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Received on Thu Jul 7 12:15:02 2011