[LAU] Ardour: exporting woes

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, Will Godfrey wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 07:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>> Having said all this. I personally wonder (yes I invite comments) about
>> the future of jackd (both 1 and 2). All our software is pushed by personal
>> itch and it seems to me that there is little if any personal itch left in
>> the jackd development camp. Plugins and internal routing are making jackd
>> less useful in some cases... but there is still a lot of SW that depends
>> on jack for it's use.
>
> This is rather like the home audio argument: all-in-one or separates.
>
> Personally, I go for the separates every time. You have far more flexibility
> and are not constrained to what the maker supports.

I agree. The comments I am looking for are as to how much interest there 
is for actually maintaining and improving jackd (1 or 2) in the 
development community. No matter how useful a project is, if it is not 
kept up, it will die. All of the stuff I have set up personally use 
jackd2. But I have looked at what I do and could use jackd1 comfortably as 
well (even with pulse audio and no patches). There are a lot of projects 
and groups of projects that depend on jackd and I want to see at least 
some version "make it".

Personally, I would like to see a version of jackd that can replace 
pulseaudio OOTB. I only use PA as a front end for jack right now as it is, 
but integration would be better. It would allow for things like skype 
needing longer latency than 256/2. That is jacksouce/sink should add it's 
own buffering. I would like to see a Jackd3 that truely replaces both 
jackd1 and jackd2 in a way that no one really has reason to keep using 
them.

Unfortunately, my DSP coding is such that for me to try to develop a jack3 
would just make sure that people kept using jack1/2 :P

Right now, PA with jackdbus as a backend is my personal sweet spot for all 
around use. (means - can be set up on my wifes computer and I can walk 
away)

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net