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On 06/30/2011 11:47 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> It is very promising that devs like Torben, Paul Davis, Rui and David

> Robillard (to name a few), are 'backing up' Jack Session and that the

> Jack Session API is in the Jack API. This will give the community a

> very good chance that many apps will get JackSession support soon (or

> later).

>

> However, it's still reasonable to expect that not all LAD applications

> are going to be patched with JackSession support.

> In other words, there are and will be apps which might be useful (for

> one or more of us) to use in a session but which won't have

> JackSession (JS) support. From a users perspective, it would be very

> useful to be able to use that application (without JS support) in a

> session in some way nevertheless.

>

> At the moment one Session Manager (SM), Pyjacksm (Qjackctl will follow

> soon, and also Patchage I expect) makes this possible by manually

> adding 'infra clients' to a configuration file, .pyjacksmrc. See

> example below. Infra clients are designed for applications without a

> state, like a2j. But it is also possible to use apps without JS

> support as infra client.

>

> Amsynth is an application without JS support and in this way I am able

> to load amsynth, with project A. The SM makes sure that Amsynth is

> started and that the Jack connections are restored (that's the only

> thing the SM can do for you for apps without JS support). But I don't

> want to use Amsynth with Project A always (Session 1). I might be

> working on a totally different project and want to make a session for

> that also (Session 2). This time I want to load amsynth as: amsynth -b

> /home/user/projectB.amSynth.presets (I don't use Session 1 and 2

> together in this example).

>

> To be able to load Session 2, I have to edit my .pyjacksmrc file or

> make symlinks.

>

> *Feature request*: It would be nice if the SM could provide me a way

> to load a different configuration file.

>

> For example: JackSessionManagerX --load configurationfileSession2

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> \r

>

>

>

> .pyjacksmrc:

>

> [DEFAULT]

> sessiondir = ~/linuxaudio/JackSession

> [infra]

> a2j = a2jmidid -e

> amsynth = amsynth -b /home/user/projectA.amSynth.presets

>

>

configurationfileSession2:

[DEFAULT]

sessiondir = ~/linuxaudio/JackSession

[infra]

a2j = a2jmidid -e

amsynth = amsynth -b /home/user/projectB.amSynth.presets
                                                                      ^
typo.

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