On 11/18/2014 12:21 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Leszek Lesner <[email protected]> wrote:
If your computers are powerfull enough I would recommend installing the
package
pulseaudio
and
pavucontrol
I do not recommend this. People will disagree with me, but pulse is a
bloated and unnecessary. It adds extra layers on top of ALSA that have
no real value. This is inconsistent with the goals of Lubuntu. If
you're doing music production, I'd simply suggest JACK. But for just
having sound for browsers and such ALSA is good enough. This is
especially true for Marc as I know he's dealing with older machines.
There was much discussion in the past about having a GUI for sound control:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lubuntu-brainstorming/+spec/sound-mixer
I think we need to revisit this discussion, personally.
Walter, and All:
Working with MIDI Music applications, I start (on Lubuntu) by installing
pulseaudio and pavucontrol.
Part of the reason I do this, is the Java Sound (Gervill) Synthesizer
assumes if the distribution is an Ubuntu variant, PulseAudio is the
sound system to use.
Pavucontrol lets me specify which (of the often multiple sound cards) is
the one connected to my amplifier. I have successfully used a USB audio
device with pulseaudio and pavucontrol.
I also use JACK (qjackctl), which is extremely useful. But beware,
PulseAudio and JACK are like 'mortal enemies'. Trying to use both at
the same time used to hang your system to where your only solution was
to turn the power off. Fortunately, newer system levels have sorted
things out to where the system doesn't hang, but you can't use JACK and
PulseAudio at the same time.
Well, actually, there is a way to do it. By manually making
configuration changes it can be done (a person on this e-mail list
showed me how). But as with so many things done by manually editing
configuration files, it went away with the next system level, and I
forgot how to do it, so I just live with not using JACK and PulseAudio
at the same time.
Also beware that sound from the web-browser doesn't coexist with JACK.
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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