About QjackCtl's Patchbay and aj-snapshot

What other apps and distros do you use to round out your studio?

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About QjackCtl's Patchbay and aj-snapshot

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Hi, my application is a radio station air chain where having the computer handling the audio hit the ground running on reboot is essential. I'm a shell scripting kind of guy, very old school, got started on BSD UNIX back in the days of old when knights were bold.

So my plan is to

  1. Launch QjackCtl on reboot,
  2. Use its internal Execute Script on Startup feature to launch a shell script that loads the clients and devices and bridges and things,
  3. Then restore connections.
  4. Then cross fingers.

Seems that QjackCtl's Patchbay should restore all connection if it launches with the Patchbay active . . . or it seems I could use aj-snapshot's --restore (from a saved file) the connections once everything has gotten loaded.

Is one better/funner/more reliable than the other?

Thank you! JACK is pretty complicated . . . not laying out a multilayer circuit board complicated, but pretty complicated.

-- Jack Elliott
They'll never take me alive

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