11 Oct
2009
11 Oct
'09
9:23 a.m.
Peter Nelson wrote:
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 08:02 -0400, Dave Phillips
wrote:
Hi Peter,
Thank you for the clarification. I felt I was a little too critical
about their relationship to JACK, so I'm glad to hear it matters to
them. Alas, I'm no coder, so I can't help directly. OTOH I would like to
see the Linux version of LMMS get it together. It's a very promising
application, but IMO it should address its audio problems before all
else. Prettifying its UI ought to be a secondary consideration until
reliable audio stability is achieved.
Best,
dp
Can't say I blame the devs for switching it
over to Windows, especially
if they're not going to bring its JACK support up to speed.
There's a thread on LMMS over at KVRaudio. It's mostly concerned with
the eye candy, they're not responding to any queries re: JACK, so I'm
not hopeful about its development for Linux. And yes, they do refer to a
name change in the near future.
I've spoken to the developers via IRC and they are actually interested
in improving JACK support, however they do not know how to do this. They
are open to any improvements, indeed they added the patch I supplied to
fix the misuse of JACK transport. Unfortunately it is quite a complex
program to get involved in.
On the audio side, plugins are run in separate threads and mixed
together. This is then put through a locking fifo buffer which the jack
process handler reads from.