[LAD] platform choices, jack for sequencing?

[Iain Duncan]

Thanks for the opinions!

iain

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
> wrote:

>
> > Thanks everyone for all the help on my architecture questions. It seems
> > like a lot of the best practise functionality has tools/components for it
> > already in Jack. I *was* planning on using rtaudio in order to be cross
> > platform, but if it's a lot easier to get things done in Jack, i could
> > live
> > with being limited to linux and OS X.
> >
>
> Jack2 runs on windows too. Just that it hasn't seen as much adoption as
> most of us round here refuse to work with MS tech unless paid a lot of
> money to do so. Some of us just refuse outright. But Stephan and his team
> have put in a lot of effort to make it work on MS platforms.
>
> > Just wondered if I could poll opinions, for a real time step sequencer
> > meant to do super tight timing and by syncable with other apps, is Jack
> > going to be a lot easier to work with? Should I just lay into the jack
> > tutorials?
> >
>
> It doesn't take long to get a jack app up and running. Its the front end
> that will consume the vast majority of your time.
>
> > And is it straightforward to use the perry cook stk in a jack app?
> >
>
> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/usage.html
>
> Several options can be supplied to the configure script to customize the
> build behavior:
>
> --disable-realtime to only compile generic non-realtime classes
> --enable-debug to enable various debug output
> --with-alsa to choose native ALSA API support (default, linux only)
> --with-oss to choose native OSS audio API support (linux only, no native
> OSS MIDI support)
> --with-jack to choose native JACK API support (linux and Macintosh OS-X)
> --with-core to choose Core Audio API support (Macintosh OS-X)
>
>
>
> > thanks everyone
> > iain
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>
>
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
>
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