Re: Jack Problems

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:01 PM Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:35:52PM +0100, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
>
> > Other than that, it's special interest usage, such as what Fons is
> > doing, which is great, but the main focus should be on the 2 points
> > above.
>
> What I am doing (when just using my home system for general work)
> is very simple.
>
> Jack and zita-mu1 are running all the time. Started by a single
> click on a desktop menu. Outputs of mu1 go via the sound card
> (no gain controls) to amplifier + speakers and/or headphones.
> Everything else connects to one of the one of the zita-mu1 inputs.
> Input #1 is an audio player (also running all the time, used for
> music listening). #2 is used by all ardour sessions. #3 will be
> used by e.g. a browser (via ALSA's jack plugin). #4 is free.
> Sofware instruments (if used standalone and not as part of
> an ardour session) could connect there. If I would use skype,
> or anthing else that only works via PA, I would have a PA sink
> connected to input #4.
>
> So with a sinlge app, I have metering, volume control and some
> extra functions on everything. Can switch between speakers and
> headphone with a single click. Zita-mu1 also provides an output
> not affected by the volume controls to record whatever I'm
> listening to.
>
> That's exactly what you say most normal users need.
>

Hmm, I'm looking at your program right now. Maybe you are right. Maybe
what we need is a way for clients to tell the server that we want to
be the mix-master, the program that all clients connects to by
default.