[linux-audio-dev] Re: Modular Jack patch bay

Dave Robillard drobilla at connect.carleton.ca
Fri Feb 13 21:17:57 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 11:20, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I was reading Ableton Live tutorials at "www.creativesynth.com" and
> found the following:
> 
>   One important point about Rewire hosting - that is shutdown order.
>   If you try to shut down Live while Reason is running, you will get
>   a warning that looks something like this:
> 
>    [ the program cannot quit ]
> 
>   Don't panic, this is common with all Rewire hosting environments - if
>   you would quit Live, Reason would have no place to send its audio.
>   Therefore, you have to jump to Reason, quit the program (saving any
>   changes you might have made), return to Live and shutdown. A bit of
>   a hassle, but well worth the effort.
> 
> That is another good reason to have the application manager in the
> Patchbay --- but it help only if one want to quit. It won't help if
> one wants keep the other applications up and running.
> 
> If I remove a synth application in Jack, then what happens to the effect
> applications in the path? Does they receive silent input or break up?
> The silent input would be better because then I could switch the
> synth application with a need to remake the whole system.

No worries... Jack definately doesn't /suck/ that much. :)

(Go get yourself some jack apps and play with them for awhile!)

-Dave




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