[PlanetCCRMA] PlanetCCRMA Digest, Vol 30, Issue 15

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:55 +0100, William Blackburn wrote:
> Fernando,
> 
> thank you for the information.  
> Is it normal to see jackdmp in the jack messages, or will that only
> show up with a bleeding edge svn build?  

I guess you will see the version, 1.9.x (regular jack1 will show 0.x)

> Also, I have been following the Fedora Musician's Guide and I have
> been trying to use supercollider-gedit.  However, I am having problems
> enabling the SC plugin for gedit.  I remember that it was a certain
> package.  Do you happen to know what this package is?

  yum list supercollider\*

will show everything that is installed and available. 

-- Fernando


> > From: planetccrma-request at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> > Subject: PlanetCCRMA Digest, Vol 30, Issue 15
> > To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:00:02 -0700
> > 
> > Send PlanetCCRMA mailing list submissions to
> > planetccrma at ccrma.stanford.edu
> > 
> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/planetccrma
> > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> > planetccrma-request at ccrma.stanford.edu
> > 
> > You can reach the person managing the list at
> > planetccrma-owner at ccrma.stanford.edu
> > 
> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> > than "Re: Contents of PlanetCCRMA digest..."
> > 
> > 
> > Today's Topics:
> > 
> > 1. Re: Question about jack. Possibly a question for Fernando
> > (Fernando Lopez-Lezcano)
> > 
> > 
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:01:57 -0700
> > From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Question about jack. Possibly a question
> > for Fernando
> > To: William Blackburn <bill_- at hotmail.com>
> > Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> > Message-ID: <1282060917.14171.27.camel at localhost.localdomain>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > 
> > On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 16:40 +0100, William Blackburn wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello everyone. I have been having some great fun with the low
> > > latencies using qjackctl, sooperlooper, audacity, a dunlop crybaby
> > > wah-wah pedal, and a seymour duncan tweakfuzz pedal. Anyways, my
> > > question is about jack and more specifically, jackdmp. I recently
> > > compiled and installed jackdmp from a subversion link provided on
> the
> > > official jack page. I read that the jackdmp installation
> 'replaces'
> > > files in the existing qjackctl
> > 
> > Not exactly, if compiled with the right options it replaces the
> files in
> > the existing jack package (if you are using Fedora). Qjackctl is
> just a
> > front end gui to jack, is a jack client and would not be changed by
> a
> > jack installation. 
> > 
> > > and is made to operate better with multi-core CPUs. I use an Intel
> > > Quad Core @ 2.4GHz x 4 so this would be good for me. Is there a
> way I
> > > can make sure that I have installed this properly? 
> > 
> > You could use the jack package from Planet CCRMA (version 1.9.x)
> unless
> > you need a bleeding edge svn version. If you install your own from
> > source you should make sure you install to /usr and not /usr/local,
> > otherwise you will have _two_ versions of jack installed and that is
> a
> > recipe for problems. 
> > 
> > > Fernando. I think saw that you were on the contributors list as
> > > making jackdmp compatible with fedora 13. That's what I put your
> name
> > > in the subject. :) 
> > 
> > Jackdmp has been part of the Planet CCRMA repositories for quite
> some
> > time, that is what I have been using. So no, it is not new for fc13
> (but
> > I would have to dig to find exactly when it became the default in
> Planet
> > CCRMA). 
> > 
> > > Also, I was wondering if there was a site where people post the
> > > latencies they are able to achieve using jack. I think it would be
> > > interesting to see how people achieve very low-latencies and what
> > > those latencies are. 
> > 
> > For my concert performances I normally use Jack 1.9.x with 128x2
> (two
> > periods of 128 frames) @ 48KHz. At those settings the system is
> reliable
> > - using pci based soundcards. 
> > 
> > -- Fernando