[LAD] Feature requests: add JackSession support

[rosea grammostola]

On 06/30/2011 12:00 PM, m.wolkstein at gmx.de wrote:
> Am Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:43:50 +0200
> schrieb rosea grammostola<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 06/30/2011 11:31 AM, Renato wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:03:05 +0200
>>> rosea grammostola<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Linux Audio Developer,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> May I make a feature request here for your Linuxaudio application(s)?
>>>>
>>>> Could you please add JackSession support? It makes working with JACK
>>>> standalone applications a lot more user friendly. There are some apps
>>>> who support it already and they work fine, like Yoshimi, Qtractor,
>>>> Pianoteq, Ghostess, Guitarix, Jack-Rack, Ardour3, Bristol, Seq24,
>>>> Jalv, Ingen, Connie, Specimen and probably more.
>>>>
>>>> It is possible to use applications without JackSession-support in a
>>>> session (via so called infra clients), it starts the applications,
>>>> make the connections, but doesn't save the state. So obviously it
>>>> would be far more useful if those applications would get
>>>> JackSession-support also.
>>>>
>>>> Qjackctl is able to work as Session Manager, so is Pyjacksm (and
>>>> likely Patchage in the future).
>>>>
>>>> According to comments on IRC by Paul Davis, it's very easy to add
>>>> JackSession support to your application.
>>>>
>>>> "Its really easy, just handle 1 more callback from the server.
>>>> Torben's walkthrough shows what is necessary."
>>>>
>>>> Torben's walktrough:
>>>> http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/Dev/JackSession
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> \r
>>>>
>>> I second this, I tried using jacksession a few days ago and it seems
>>> to me it works very well; it does what it should and nothing more, it is
>>> not intrusive
>> Maybe good to note also is that almost all recent distros (also
>> multimedia distros like AVLinux, Tango Studio etc.) have the latest
>> Jackd version these days (JACK1 and/ or JACK2, both support
>> JackSession). So apps with JackSession support are compiled with
>> JackSession automatically on those distros (no need to add a patch or a
>> special build parameter or anything like that). :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> \r
> hey ho,
> i am very interested to implement jack session into hydrogen. but i am a bit confused about how it is to use as a user.
> i understand how to implement it into an application. thx to http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/Dev/JackSession.
> but i miss a simple howto use jacksession in your local audio envirement.
> whatever exist such a document for dummies like me?
Wolke,

Understanding the dev side and not the user side, that is the world 
up-side-down for me ;)
http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/User/jack_session

You need Jackd > = 0.120 or 1.9.7 and qjackctl 0.3.7

Start qjackctl, start JACK
Start an app with JS support (yoshimi)
Make the desired connections
In qjackctl 0.3.7, you have a session window, open it.
Save session
Make a *new* folder (be careful not to overwrite an other folder (should 
become more safe in the next Qjackctl version))
Select that new folder to save the session to.
You can quit the session by just quitting the applications, or choose 
save (save and quit)
You can load the session via the load button in the Session window of 
Qjackctl, choose the right session folder.

HTH
\r