On 08/27/2014 10:05 AM, david wrote:

Booted live KXStudio 14.04 DVD. Cadence started JACK, pointed uselessly at the onboard audio. I pointed it at my USB sound card with the same settings I use normally. Started Zyn. It visibly made sound (Zyn's indicator), but no sound came out. (I found nothing in Cadence to connect Zyn to JACK. But then I don't know Cadence.) I ran KMixer and audio volume was up for the USB card. So I said, Oh, well, guess it doesn't work with Zyn. (Not the first time I've had problems with Zyn and JACK, I much prefer Yoshimi.) So I close Zyn. After which Cadence reports that JACK server is stopped. Restarting JACK or even force restarting a JACK restart using Cadence gives me no audio devices to pick from.

KXStudio isn't ready for this user yet, I guess.

I don't remember getting a bug report about this, unless this counts as one?

In any case, the Zyn in the kxstudio repos does not auto-connect to system outputs.
This is so it can be safely used in a session manager environment.

The 14.04 ISO is a bit old now.
There has been some serious Cadence improvements and a new Zyn release since then.
A new ISO will be released in a few days.