23 Mar
2009
23 Mar
'09
8:29 p.m.
Whatever autoconnect scheme jack could provide, it
would not please some app authors. They would want
to be sure to be connected to playback-1 and -2
while jack might connect them to -7 and -8, and
that would actually make more sense than wanting
to autoconnect in the first place. So they would
just bypass jack's --no-autoconnect option by doing
it themselves.
You can't stop people from behaving in uncivilised
ways or being rude by law, nor by being polite
yourself. In the same way you can't stop apps from
autoconnecting by trying to make it impossible, or
by providing an alternative. The problem is not
technical, it is the attitude of application authors
thinking they can decide in the user's place.
From a user perspective, autconnecting apps never seems
to match the user
requirement. The more complex the studio, (usually when there is a
physical patch
bay involved) the more complex the connection scheme maybe, or it maybe changing
constantly through a piece of work..
So within Ardour, I turn off Autoconnect(thankyou for allowing me to do this),
and with other apps I have to go in and undo the connections they initiate on
startup...
I really need to get my head around Lash... then maybe my life will be easier.