Hi All,
Pipewire claims to be a replacement for both jack and pulseaudio and
provides drop-in replacements for programs that expect either to be
present. It also claims to be low-latency. My distro (Fedora) moved to
Pipewire a few updates ago and I hardly noticed. I usually route fluidsynth
through alsa so I haven't tried rg via Pipewire but I'll give the pulseaudio
drop-in a tryout. If, as it claims, pw is to be the standard Linux
sound/media
server (it does video too), then I guess rg should have a good look at it...
I have no view on LV2.
Regards,
Chuck Elliot.
On 6/6/22 2:45 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
Hi all,
As a new release approaches, I think one of the latest threads about
synths, jack (midi) etc. re-prompts the longstanding questions:
1. do we want LV2 in Rosegarden?
2. do we want Jack-MIDI?
IMHO (and with an updated perspective compared to my opinions in the
past):
1. I think on the one hand this would be great because LV2 is the
current de-facto standard on Linux and would open up many
possibilities if integrated natively.
The key question, though, is: would it make sense to support LV2 if
then user's aren't able to 'generate' (i.e. save as, say, a WAV file),
the final result of their musical masterpiece made in Rosegarden?
I'm thinking of software like Ardour, Qtractor and LMMS (the latter
notably also not supporting LV2 yet), which are potentially
self-contained in that you add/use plugins, and when done export to a
final audio file.
If Rosegarden were to support LV2 it should also support audio export
of the final result, otherwise it would mostly generate user frustration.
Self-contained in audio is a double-edged sword which easy becomes
obsolete when relying on plugins which will eventually be
un-maintained or become incompatible (this applies also outside the
Linux ecosystem - think RTAS or DirectX).
2. jack-midi feels like a higher priority. Why? Because it would allow
to e.g. connect to jack-midi applications like Carla (multi-format
plugin host) or Ardour (to name a couple) and better support
modularity within the current Linux ecosystem where it seems that ALSA
Midi is considered to be deprecated. True there is a2j but that's
really a bit of a work-around.
My two (user-oriented) cents and would be interesting to hear other
opinions.
Lorenzo.
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