Jack and D-Bus

[funkmuscle]

I have no clue about this so I'm asking.. What is the purpose of Jack and D-Bus?
Do I need them working together?
Does it improve latency, etc??

[studio32]

Afaik jackdbus is an option in Jack2. You can build it with dbus enabled. You only want this if you want to work with Ladish (as I do). Jackdbus is not better or worse then classic Jack2 in performance. You can build both -classic and -dbus, they are in the same package, Jack2.

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[SR]

I'm curious why it's not enabled by default in some distributions. Was there some controversy to it?

[studio32]

I'm curious why it's not enabled by default in some distributions. Was there some controversy to it?

Understatement

Search the LAD archives on dbus, jackdbus, LADI.

I don't want to dive into it to deeply, I'm not a programmer, but a lot seems to be due to bad communication in the community. There might some myths flying around... Also Paul D. seems to be not a great fan of it and it seems that the community 'just' follows his opinion sometimes.. On the other hand, he has proven to know something

So at the end, Ladi with jackdbus might not be the best session solution for everyone, but for a regular home studio desktop user it has proven to be useful already...

Also other devs like RUI from qjackctl, has accepted dbus support in qjackctl...

Let's see if it can kill the 'myths' around dbus...

[funkmuscle]

So at the end, Ladi with jackdbus might not be the best session solution for everyone, but for a regular home studio desktop user it has proven to be useful already...

I'm a regular home studio desktop user, how is it useful? I'm asking because Rui just updated jackctl with dbus support and I wondering if it's worth it to upgrade or not.

[studio32]

So at the end, Ladi with jackdbus might not be the best session solution for everyone, but for a regular home studio desktop user it has proven to be useful already...

I'm a regular home studio desktop user, how is it useful? I'm asking because Rui just updated jackctl with dbus support and I wondering if it's worth it to upgrade or not.

It restores the applications I have launched in it, along with the jack connections. I can simply restart such a setup with ladish

If you use ladish, you probably don't use qjackctl, but ladish with laditools... On the other hand it is handy that such a core app also supports jackdbus now.

[funkmuscle]

thanx studio for the info and help. Now I need to look at Ladi...