[LAU] jack session question

rosea.grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 22:23:54 UTC 2011


On 07/07/2011 12:10 AM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 10:09 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
>> On 07/06/2011 11:06 PM, fred wrote:
>>> Oups !
>>>
>>> I probably have to say sorry for the noise, cause Specimen is not from
>>> svn here, and Qsynth is
>>> not in the list at
>>> http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/User/jack_session
>>
>> Qsynth not in the list?
>>
>
> nope. qsynth has no jack-session support atm.
>
> theres a couple of reasons that sets it back in that regard: qsynth
> state is stored on a global user configuration file that doesn't depend
> nor change across sessions whatsoever. the other reason is that qsynth
> is a singleton. you can only have one instance running at anyone given
> time. starting a second instance just activates the first one. been like
> that for ages now, way before jack-session was ever the talk of the town ;)
>
> anyway, imo, the only advantage i can see to qsynth participate on a
> jack-session would be its automatic launch on session load.

and the JACK connections. I can imagine that if Qsynth or app X has its 
place between other JACK apps (which have JackSession support) in a 
session, it would be quite cumbersome for making the JACK connections, 
if that app X hasn't JackSession support (you could use it as infra 
client maybe).

adding full
> jack-session support to qsynth is planned, way back on the backlog
> though :)
>
> cheers



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