[CM] juce, linux and alsa

[Heinrich Taube]

dave thanks very much for your input.  ill look and see what  
implications switching has for the juce midi devices, which i think  
are alsa. if i swtich to  jack audio then id like to just drop alsa  
completely if thats possible.


On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:

> Heinrich Taube wrote:
>> it seems like one of the juce wizards has written a class for   
>> connecting to jack rather than alsa. its on page two of this  
>> (long)  discussion about audio problems on linux, which actually  
>> seem quite  centered on problems with alsa!
>>
>> http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juceforum/viewtopic.php?t=1338
>>
>>  i dont really know what the right solution is to get the audio   
>> problems sorted out on linux.
>>
>
> Interesting discussion. The players include the developer of the  
> excellent JOST plugin host (kraken, aka Lucio Asnaghi), the  
> developer of Snd-ls and a JUCE-ified Mammut (kjetil, aka Kjetil  
> Matheussen), and of course the lead JUCE dev (jules).
>
> Yes, the real focus of their lament is ALSA. Frankly, I agree with  
> Kjetil: Use JACK for serious audio, use OSS (or ALSA's OSS  
> emulation) for everything else. The number of audio "solutions" for  
> Linux has become a problem itself, and application developers might  
> be best advised to simply support OSS and JACK. IMO, you could skip  
> OSS entirely too, but that's a little more radical. However,  
> choosing JACK also gives you access to JackMIDI (better timing than  
> the ALSA sequencer) and jackdmp (multiprocessor JACK daemon, aka  
> JACK2). For my purposes there's little or no need for OSS support.
>
> I suggest going with JACK all the way. It's the best high- 
> performance audio server available for Linux (and now OSX and  
> reportedly Windows), it includes integral MIDI support, and its  
> continued development is pretty likely.
>
> Now if only the JavaSound devs were listening ...
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>