On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
pulseaudio is an absolutely no-go. If you want to ship Ubuntu Studio with the pulseaudio-jack combination add a note that Ubuntu Studio is not an audio distro. This might sound harsh, but it's my deepest believe, so I need to point this out.
That is not harsh, but not true either. Or it is only true if you limit your definition of "audio distro" to a very narrow group of uses and in fact make the distro into an appliance that does only one thing well and no longer a multipurpose machine. I do not dissagree with the idea that a studio DAW machine should not be used for anything else and that a second desktop machine might make be a better accounting, wordprocessing or browsing machine. However, most people are limited to one machine that has to do all of these things... and more.
I would also question your assertion that "pulseaudio is an absolutely no-go." I can do many types of audio processing at realatively low latency (in fact the lowest latency many internal audio interfaces are capable of) with pulseaudio running and using jack as it's output device with complete stability and no xruns.
In my opinion, the problem is with jackd (1, 2 or dbus, take your pick) which does not provide the kind of desktop service pulseaudio does and is not likely to do so ever from what I can tell. If you look hard enough you can find reasons why any of the software on the US iso does not belong in an "audio distro".
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