Re: scsynth.exe vs VoiceMeeter for online teaching

I am not completely sure, but I think scsynth can be built with Jack support on windows.

> On May 9, 2020 at 11:07 AM [email protected] wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Bit of a strange issue -- I don't think I have enough info to log as a
> bug. And we might end up deciding that it's not worth investigating,
> but...
> 
> Because of an interesting chain of events, I've had to move my online
> teaching from my Linux machine (where Zoom Meeting had been working
> quite well) onto a Windows machine.
> 
> Piping audio apps into the meeting was relatively easy in Linux --
> just manually connect the JACK sources to the PulseAudio input. JACK
> mixes the audio with my mic and everything works.
> 
> Not so easy in Windows. I heard a while back from some students about
> a Windows audio-routing app, VoiceMeeter, which works a treat with
> just about everything I'm using.
> 
> Except... SuperCollider.
> 
> I've got:
> 
> - Audacity: PortAudio --> VoiceMeeter input -- works great.
> - Ardour: PortAudio --> VoiceMeeter input -- works great (with a slight tweak).
> - Pure Data: Not sure which audio library it's using --> VoiceMeeter
> input -- works great.
> - SuperCollider: PortAudio --> VoiceMeeter input: boots up but playing
> SinOsc.ar(440) produces only some randomly-timed very low frequency
> pulses.
> 
> Audacity and Ardour tell me that there isn't an inherent problem with
> PortAudio --> VoiceMeeter. But there is a problem somewhere in the way
> that *we* are using PortAudio.
> 
> One other data point: Ardour shuts down VoiceMeeter's audio i/o, but I
> can restore it by reselecting the output device in VM's console (and
> then it all works fine). If I try the same trick with SuperCollider,
> VM complains that the device is not available and there's nothing else
> I can do, except quit scsynth. (Again, not an inherent problem with
> PortAudio, as Ardour handles it better.)
> 
> On the one hand, it's an atypical use case.
> 
> On the other, it's a limitation for long distance educators (that is,
> basically all educators now) who, for whatever reason, are unfortunate
> enough to be stuck with online meeting software that doesn't support
> Linux.
> 
> So I'll just throw that out there and see if anyone bites.
> 
> hjh
> 
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