Hi, if I chose "Audio System: JACK" I can start a new session, but if I chose "Audio System: ALSA", I get "Failed to open audio device". Perhaps I make a mistake. There's no special reason that I want to use ALSA instead of JACK, I just want to test it. I never tried to do it before, with any other version of Ardour. $ pacman -Q ardour ardour 4.7-1 $ grep jack /var/cache/aur/current/ardour-4.7-1-PKGBUILD --with-backends="jack,alsa" \ --libjack=weak \ $ amidi -l;aplay -l;arecord -l Dir Device Name IO hw:0,0 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: HDSPMx579bcc [RME AIO_579bcc], device 0: RME AIO [RME AIO] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: HDSPMx579bcc [RME AIO_579bcc], device 0: RME AIO [RME AIO] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user