[LAU] need some advice before upgrading JACK

[Dave Phillips]

Ray Rashif wrote:
>
> JACK1 is definitely more reliable than JACK2, as some plug-ins 
> (notably VST ones) may fail to launch/run properly. But this is 
> negligible, and not a factor at all if your system is native.
>
Good to know. The production box stays native, but I'll stick with JACK1 
for now.

> JACK has nothing to do with "apps" code-wise unless there is a 
> specific compile-time config which the app needs, so there is no need 
> to recompile anything of that sort (Ardour, Qtractor). What usually 
> requires recompilation are libraries, but so far I don't know of any 
> such inter-related lib. For eg. you can have an older ffado and still 
> run jack with firewire.

Okay, thanks, that's what I was really concerned about.

Best,

dp