On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:31 PM, jonetsu@teksavvy.com <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> wrote:

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 00:56:57 +0100
Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> wrote:

> How about using a GNU/Linux distribution that does not ship a 2 1/2
> year old versions of jackd?

No way. I do not want to install a new OS anytime soon. This LM 17
works fine and is supported until 2019 security-wise. (Hopefully no
malware will come through the updates since LM was hacked seriously
recently.)

Except ... it doesn't work fine, because it has a 2-1/2 year old version of JACK :)

> No drawbacks. Except you'll have to stop jackd if you want to use the
> same device as jackd is using.

> There's also a "None (Dummy)" audio system which does not need an
> actual device, but this only available if Ardour was configured
> with
> ./waf configure --with-backends=jack,alsa,dummy
>
> (Ardour4 debug builds from http://nightly.ardour.org/ have this
> enabled).

Thanks for the details. Can this dummy option be used for exports and
will it be in the next Ardour release ?

As Robin explained, the "dummy" backend is in *debug* builds on the nightly site. We do not include it in normal releases.