Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > If you are using midi just for fun, keeping pulseaudio should not hurt. This is the impression I got, but in the past I have had odd things happening with sound and even had to reboot to set it right again. I think pulseaudio is better now. I will see how I get along with both jack and pulseaudio later today. > My jack runs with alsa backend and kmix' plain alsa sliders of work with jack. I will see if there is a pulseaudio backend, otherwise I will have to do this, too. I would prefer not to disrupt the pulseaudio setup. > [I]f you are using jack for low latency audio productional purposes No. I have not yet been advised what low latency is. > or if you simply want to have full control over your audio device, > then it is best to get rid of pulseaudio. I definitely don't want to get rid of pulseaudio, as it is so integrated into the system and it is working so reliably that I do not want to tamper with it. All I want is sound when there is supposed to be sound, no matter from what source, and I want to be able to control its volume and occasionally make other adjustments, such as bass, treble, left, right, centre, etc. Occasionally, I might like to separately control the volume and other qualities of one source and of another. What I don't want is silence when there is supposed to be sound and I don't want to have to fiddle for hours and read endless documents that might or might not be located on some unknown web sites somewhere that I have to spend hours and hours locating, only to find that they are eons outdated and don't give me sound when I am supposed to have it.
