[LAD] Feature requests: add JackSession support

[rosea grammostola]

On 06/30/2011 12:11 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> 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 have to browse one subfolder backwards to be able to select your new 
session folder likely.
> You can quit the session by just quitting the applications, or choose 
> save (save and quit)
It is possible to overwrite an existing Jacksession folder (again, be 
careful to overwrite the right one!!!)
Atm there is no way to stop a session via a button without saving the 
session ...
> You can load the session via the load button in the Session window of 
> Qjackctl, choose the right session folder.
That's the new folder you made to save the session obviously.
>
> HTH
> \r
>
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