[LAU] Fedora 12 & CCRMA

[Rick Green]

On Thu, 20 May 2010, Paul Davis wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Rick Green <rtg at aapsc.com> wrote:
>
>> One other thing I've encountered:
>>
>>  I can now run ardour after starting jack with qjackctl, but if I start
>> Ardour first, and go to the 'audio setup' tab and select 'FFADO', then the
>> interface box is empty, as well as the 'input interface' and 'output
>> interface' boxes on the 'advanced' tab.  The pulldowns give me no options,
>> either.  I don't see anything like this reported as a bug on the Ardour
>> tracker.  I wonder if it's still an anomaly in my config?  I do see the same
>> mis-behaviour on both my US10.04 and FC12/CCRMA test systems.
>>
>
> Ardour's audio setup tab has no real support for FFADO at this time. The
> audio setup tab was created primarily for OS X users. If you are on Linux, I
> strongly, *strongly* recommend that you use qjackctl or some other
> equivalent tool to run JACK.
>
  Thanks.  I've been using qjackctl on my US8.04 system, and I'll continue 
with my new system.

I wonder if someday qjackctl, ffado-mixer, and possibly others would be 
adapted to a 'plug-in' architecture so that they could be launched as 
needed from Ardour.  The benefits of integration without having to 
duplicate all that code??

-- 
Rick Green

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