I think AMS is cool. I am having only one problem with it, I believe it has something to do with my soundcard. Sometimes patches will explode into violent noises (even the ones that are demos). I am going to play with the --frag option and see if it is that. I might try it with Jack, but I am afraid of powerful Demons :) I have mangled many Linux installations by hacking around with programs I didn't understand or messing with configurations without knowing what they were. I use this machine as my only computer, I really don't want to lose it all and have to reinstall everything. It took a while to get it setup this way. I will wait until someone puts up a Jack HOW-TO that is more extensive and explains it so that regular users can use it without fear. Until than I just consider it experimental but I am very interested in it and want to use it more. The words Low-Latency and Professional Audio are very captivating.. but I tread lightly with powerful real-time demon programs. I have learned from experience. I would program it more.. but, the whole process puts the willies in me... anything running as root makes me nervous. Not that I fear Jack is defective, I fear what I am doing is defective.. so... that is why I don't mess with it too much and have a neurosis about it. I have seen Linux die because of something stupid I did before. But so far ALSA is really very good and I have no problems using it at all. I have figured out the MIDI sequencer pretty well, I am going to make some HOW-TO's so people can program it. There isn't very much information about ALSA Sequencer programming. I found a few small demo programs and that was enough to dig into the API and figure it out. I think Dr. Mattias was the author, now that I think of it. That and reading the API headers I figured out how to program it. I joined the AMS list so I will see you there.
