[Ardour-Users] A couple of puzzles

[Will J Godfrey]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 02:51:48 +0200
Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:

> On 08/17/2015 09:21 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
> > when configuring, Ardour calls for 'lilv-0' >= 0.21.3
> > but I'm running debian jessie and that has 0.20.0
> 
> That's current SVN from http://svn.drobilla.net/lad/ it is not yet
> released. Ardour is preparing for the future :)
> 
> Ardour.org binaries are build with hand-selected svn snapshots:
> http://robin.linuxaudio.org/ladsvn/
> 
> > Also, the build summary says:
> > * ALSA Backend        : False
> 
> That is an optional alternative to JACK (like ASIO, Coreaudio).
> run   ./waf configure --with-backends=jack,alsa,dummy
> for example.
> 
> The only benefit of Ardour's ALSA backend is that it allows ont to
> calibrate and configure hardware midi-port latencies (jack cannot
> currently do that).
> Some users also find it simpler to use (setup), but on GNU/Linux there
> is little reason to not use JACK.
> 
> > Yet it seems to compile and run quite correctly, and LV2 works (as implemented
> > in yoshimi).
> > 
> > What functionality am I losing?
> > 
> 
> LV2 related: proper LV2 preset load/save. Reloading presets when they
> are changed is broken with lilv 0.20.0. Also non-existing state files
> will crash.
> 
> Furthermore here are also subtle changes/fixes regarding external state
> data (symlinks) and a hell of a lot of efficiency improvements
> (sord/serd tree-storage) in the unreleased lv2-stack (lad svn repo) as
> well as portability fixes.
> 
> best,
> robin

Thanks for the explanation.

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