About making life easier for audio producers.

[Steven Rosenberg]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Diogo Campos (gmail)
<diogocamposwd at gmail.com> wrote:

> That said, the fact is that, right now, in Fedora 21 Workstation, is simply
> frustrating to open (for example) Ardour and watch the whole thing dependent
> on PulseAudio go mute, and JACK initialize with (serious?)
> errors/warnings/misconfigurations(?), like:
>
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/15)(1: Operação não
> permitida)
> [ERROR]: JACK: JackClient::AcquireSelfRealTime error
>
> So, the thing is: there would be a way to make JACK and PulseAudio work
> together out-of-the-box in Fedora Workstation 22+?
>
> Of course, I am suggesting this because I really think that an audio
> producer (beginner, amateur or professional) isn't interested in dealing
> with sound systems, sound servers, packages, config files and technical
> documentation just to make their audio tools work (well).
>
> What do you think? There is interest? Is worth the work? Any ideas? Am I
> missing something?

If the Ardour package doesn't work out of the box, I think the place
to start is filing a bug (or bugs) against it.

The places to start learning about Ardour in Fedora are:

https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ardour
and
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ardour3

(There are two versions of Ardour in Fedora, it seems).

I'm no expert on PulseAudio (my only advice is that in Xfce, you MUST
install https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pavucontrol), and I
know nothing about Jack, but I bet there are plenty of Fedora users
out there who have experience and tips to share on Ardour.