Re: [Jack-Devel] speaker management

On Wed, December 12, 2012 7:26 am, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:14:35 -0600 David Nielson
> <[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 12/11/2012 03:30 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
>> > I did something similar two years back: Recorded the
>> > impulse-response of my home-office, feed them to drc and then used
>> > the resulting files with jconvolver to correct four channels of
>> > speakers. I planned to do more but the amp for channels 3-8 is a
>> > diy-project and time ran out...
>>
>> What were the results? I've thought about doing something similar and
>> wonder if it's worth my time.
>
> The results where very good and very worth the time! I started with
> good quality speakers and a fine listening experience. Then I
> introduced drc (and used some x-over with fons ambisonics decoder to
> feed the bass only to the bigger front speakers) and was blown away by
> the amazing sound. Of course it took some sinus-sweeps to get the
> room-response but none of the neighbors complained;-)
>
> If I find more time for audio again, I might even incorporate such a
> thing into my live setup.
>
> The only downside: when you start doing something with permanent drc
> and have to run drc and your regular synth/recording sessions on the
> same machine, you understand fons fighting for session managers that
> can be told to get out of your way and ignore certain apps with their
> settings (while still managing the same apps in different instances).
>

This seems like it should be a simple flag in the session API. Can you
explain this issue a little more?

If the app doesn't have support for jack session management how can the
session manager be in the way?


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