On 28 June 2014 13:40, Vesa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/28/2014 03:28 PM, David Gerard wrote:

>> At present I'm using LMMS with alsa as the selected backend, alsa-base
>> is installed. Presumably I've got pulse pretending to be alsa.

> You need to set the "device" setting in the backend selection to point
> it directly to your sound device. Otherwise PA will intercept the output
> of LMMS.
> There's instructions in the wiki for doing this.


Aha, specifically:

 
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting#I_get_lots_of_latency_.28lag.29_when_playing_instruments_in_LMMS

I did this once, closed and reopened LMMS (current git master) and it
came up with "dummy", no output device. I set it again, closed and
restarted LMMS and it worked!

Unfortunately, no other application can play sound now, until I shut LMMS.

And if I start LMMS again while any other application that produces
sound is running, then LMMS comes up with "dummy" as the output device
again.

So, much like using JACK was: this is a "solution" that completely
fails to play nice with anything else. I do have cause to listen to
things while doing things in LMMS ...

Is there a solution such that LMMS will actually play well with other things?


>But please be careful before blaming LMMS.  Linux sound issues have been well 
>documented over many many years countless forums and PulseAudio is often a 
>culprit (I cannot explain technically why this is the case -- sorry).


Linux sound has always been a utter, utter disaster. Every now and
then someone writes a new Linux sound architecture that solves some of
the previous problems and introduces new ones. Pulse is just the
latest attempt.


- d.

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