Hi Len, On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 13:47 -0800, Len Ovens wrote: > Still looking for jack. I think once you set Ardour to jackd it > starts that way next time. Looking at 4.6.0 (old now that 4.7 is > realeased) there is no way to change the audio back end at startup... > but the session can not be loaded without the audio back end. So to > change to ALSA means start with jackd running then go to Window > ->Audio/midi setup, change the backend to ALSA from there. Ardour failed to create new sessions with ALSA, at no time I tried to open an existing session. 1. $ ardour4 bind txt domain [gtk2_ardour4] to /usr/share/ardour4/locale Ardour4.7.0 (built using 4.7 and GCC version 5.3.0) [snip] 2. New Session 3. Session name: test_session Advanced options: untouched defaults [x] Create master bus 2 channels [x] Automatically connect to physical inputs [ ] Use only 1 channels [x] Automatically connect outputs [x] ...to master bus [ ] ...to physical outputs [ ] Use only 0 channels 3. After "Open" Audio System: select ALSA, was JACK 4. 'Start' and/or 'OK' results in "Failed to open audio device" The audio device is unused, no web browser, no jackd or anything else that could use the device is running. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pidof jackd [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ps aux|grep jack|grep -v grep [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user