Maybe I miss something obvious, but what's wrong with using
PD as it is - i.e. as a standalone jack client. After all, isn't that
the main point of jack's wounderful routing capabilities?
Max4Live exists because there's nothing comparable in the
windows/mac world (or, at least, there wasn't)
My PD patches will run with ardour as well as with qtractor -
I consider this an advantage.