[LAU] A survey if you don't mind

[Will Godfrey]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:52:21 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 19:40 +0200, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> > On 21.10.2014 19:12, Will Godfrey wrote:
> > > I'm posting this in a number of places to try and get some idea of
> > > ALSA/JACK usage, so I'd be grateful for responses.
> > > 
> > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZVV7K9
> > > 
> > 
> > A note on the questions, though this might be considered nitpicking:
> > 
> > I use jack on top of alsa ;) for audio and for midi.. So technically I
> > use both..
> 
> It's a little bit nitpicking regarding to audio, but MIDI indeed is a
> little bit fishy.
> 
> For audio I chose Jack with ALSA as backend, in the context IMO it's
> Jack, but for MIDI it's a little bit complicated ... Jack 2 alsarawmidi
> (slave) with a bridge and sometimes ALSA and sometimes Jack, so my vote
> is
> 
> Audio: "JACK"
> MIDI : "Sometimes ALSA, other times JACK"
> 
> Btw. when not crating sounds/music it's ALSA, not Jack, not Pulseaudio.

You're both quite right, but I was trying to keep the survey as simple as
possible but covering most options.

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Will J Godfrey
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