[LAU] Problems with Jack after upgrading Mint

[Bill Purvis]

On 21/04/2020 17:10, Bill Purvis wrote:
> I've not done much of late, busy with other things, but I had cause to 
> update Linux Mint to
> 19.3 last week. Just tried testing various things and hit problems 
> with Jack.
> I'm running jackd2 1.9.12~dfsg-2 and get noises with nothing running, 
> and when I try running
> some midi files via Calf Fluidsynth, the noises are nothing like what 
> they should be.
> I then switched to using the latest Yoshimi (1.7.1, thanks Will) and 
> that also produces
> awful noises.
>
> However, if I shut down jack, yoshimi happily switches to direct via 
> Alsa and sounds perfect.
>
> However, my sequencer (home-grown) relies on Jack, and Calf Fluidsynth 
> also seems to be
> fixed on using Jack.
>
> Any ideas where to start tracking down this problem?
>
> Bill
> (getting older... :-( )
>
After trying various things I browsed the web a bit more and someone 
raised the issue
of pulseadio. The AskUbuntu pages have an entry on hot to get Jack and 
PulseAudio to
work together and recommended installing pulseaudio-module-jack (which 
was already
installed( and setting the Jack options to issue:
     pacmd set-default-sink jack_out
This has sorted the problem and my sound is back to how it used to be!

Bill

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