On 10/04/2015 10:02 PM, michael noble wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Ben Burdette <bburdette@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto:bburdette@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
>
> No one ever uses that portaudio mode in linux in the
> supercollider world, so its something of a surprise that it works at
> all.
>
>
> This quote alone suggests you may be overstating the difficulty of
> getting a working JACK system up and running with the latencies you
> require. If JACK were as bad as you maintain, surely more people would
> be using the alternative? I'd thoroughly recommend you spend the time
> you will spend trying to get the portaudio backend running the way you
> want and use that time instead to learn how to set up and use JACK on
> your platform. In my experience, once JACK is set up and running, it
> is as hassle free as any other direct interface, but with the added
> bonus of future flexibility if required...
I think most people aren't running jack without a gui and on an arm
computer. In that situation debian, for instance, has its dbus
permissions completely hosed by default, from the standpoint of jack
anyway. I had raspian working since last year, but a recent update made
my dbus hacks no longer work.
Arch actually works out of the box with regards to dbus, although I had
some trouble giving jack realtime priority starting it from systemd.
From systemd jack mostly starts without xruns, if I 'sleep 30' first.
Recently I built a test app using faust and writing directly to alsa.
Super responsive, low latency. Starts right up, no worries about -p256
or -p512 or etc. I am building an instrument and I don't need the
flexibility of routing audio between applications. I do need low
latency and reliability on startup. Jack, while no doubt powerful in a
studio situation, is for me a needless complication which has produced
lots of sysadmin headaches and no benefits.
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