10 Feb
2013
10 Feb
'13
1:49 p.m.
On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 09:59 +0000, Dan MacDonald wrote:
* JACK needs to become more plug-and-play. I think its
a shame it
still offers no way to auto-detect optimal settings on any given setup
and instead the user has to find out what options to tweak then find
the best settings through trial and error.
How should it be done to auto-detect the best settings? IMO it's
impossible.
* JACK can still fail to start and just leave the user with some
pretty cryptic errors as to why it failed.
I experienced this very seldom, but it's true, I at least remember one
very strange example on jack devel mailing list a while ago. The output
lead into a completely wrong direction.
* JACK can't hot swap audio devices and so if the
user wants this
feature they have to integrate PA with JACK which sadly still isn't
straightforward under many popular distros and then the user has to
learn about how ALSA, PA and JACK interact.
Are there many cases when users need to switch the audio device?
[snip]
In fact, I'm a bit concerned that if Bitwig leads to an explosion of
commercial apps and plugins for Linux and LA busts out of its niche
that LA* will suffer a kinda Ubuntu/Android effect where these lists
will get swamped with newb questions and cause many of our valued
members to unsubscribe.
There's already energyXT, but it didn't cause such an explosion.
Regards,
Ralf