22 Mar
2019
22 Mar
'19
2:50 a.m.
Thank you Holger
I will work through this, I see what you mean.
If I can just get jack to have repeatable problems, then I can work with
it, but at the moment it all seems random.
Re Motu, it cuts my dependency on a specific OS and has a great web
based mixer, while it is usb complaiant with linux, Heaven! That way at
least I can cut my problems in half. I will still have the jack usb/midi
problems, but at least I have a rock solid os independent mixer option.
The 1818vsl is Do$e only and is a horrible flakey piece of software.
Huge upgrade. At least Motu is Linux friendly compared to most of the
other manufacturers, so I go that way.
On 2019-03-22 04:27, Holger Marzen wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, liebrecht(a)grossmann-venter.com
wrote:
I am moving to Motu which will really6 ease
things up. The Presonus
gear is
not very well thought through, but it is not the problem here.
Good luck.
I am hesitant to use jack as it almost never work
consistently,
pulseaudio at
least works. If I uninstall pulseaudio I will lose all my bluetooth
enabled
ipads and galaxys etc. That works just great. Pulse has other problems
being a
systemd applicat5ion there is a lot of built in garbage I agree, but
wihout it
I dont think anything can take its place currently.
The problem isn't jack but the multitude of audio systems with Linux.
The biggest problem for a jack newbie is to reliably keep Pulsaudio
away
from the audio adapter hardware. It grabs the adapter and then jackd
can't use it.
Solution:
Configure Pulseaudio NOT to use the soundcard but jack-sink and
jack-source, so it outputs to a running jackd.
There are many ways to do it. I use /etd/pulse/default.pa with
load-module module-jack-source
load-module module-jack-sink channels=2
The addition "channels=2" is important when you have an audio interface
with more than 2 channels, e.g. the Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. Without
"channels=2" the SoundCloud player sounds odd because Pulseaudio
fiddles
around with the channels. Maybe there is another solution, too.
See http://marzen.de/Holger/pulseaudio_and_jack/
Regards
Holger