[LAU] jack -> net driver

[David Santamauro]

Hi Rob,

On 12/28/2013 12:25 PM, Rob wrote:
> David Santamauro <david.santamauro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> .. answering myself ...
>>
>> On 12/28/2013 10:26 AM, David Santamauro wrote:
>>
>>> Then I started the slave (same command line) and noticed massive
>> xruns
>>> (on the slave) -- so ... I change it all back to -p 256 but the xruns
>>> are still present (on the slave).
>>>
>>> Poking around a bit, I opened up the "options" on the master and it
>> says
>>> Frames/Period: 256, I open up options on the slave, and it is grayed
>> out
>>> but says: Frames/Period: 512.
>>>
>>> My questions are simply:
>>>
>>> 1) is qjackctl reporting this correctly on the slave?
>>
>> No, qjackctl is displaying some old values, opening up the Messages
>> window -> Status tab shows the correct value (256)
>>
>>> 3) is this why I'm seeing massive xruns?
>>
>> nope ... while looking at the Status tab I noticed DSP load was between
>>
>> 95% and 100%. I found the offending windows program and all is well
>> again
>
>
> Out of curiosity what software are you running on each OS?

I just finished building a semi-stable working environment made up of:

Linux:
   - jackd
   - patchage (to visualize and manage the connection graph)
   - jkmeter, gmidimonitor
   - non-session-manager (and the ever essential JACKPatch, without 
which I would have given up on linux audio)
   - ardour3 for all live recordings and all mixing -- just starting to 
be able to see it as stable replacement for Sonar X1. I miss some things 
for sure and had to fall back to X1 a few times for a paid job with a 
deadline, but ... it's almost there and high time for me to contribute 
some $$.

Windows:
   - loopbe30 (virtual midi ports)
   - jackd
   - Plogue Bidule (vst host and connection routing manager)
   - Various software instruments e.g., EastWest, Vienna Instruments, 
Garritan etc.
   - Notion4 (notation software)

   The rest are becoming obsolete:
   - Vienna Ensemble Pro 5 (very impressive piece of software)
   - Sonar X1


I've had success using wine and/or vsthost for many of my windows VSTs 
but the major deal breakers were always eastwest and vienna because they 
require a dongle so I just manage all windows stuff in windows and route 
everything using jackd(net).

David