Hi Eylul, Jack is a sound server for audio production purpose. For good reasons it defaults to 32-bit float. There's nearly no good reason to decide against this default. The bit depth used by the sound server has nothing to do with e.g. CD compatibility.
If this app should make setting up an audio environment easier for noobs, only offer to select between all available sample rates and don't provide any choice to change the bit depth at all. The default sample rate should be 48000 Hz. Sometimes it could make sense to chose 44100 Hz, so maybe you could recommend both. Other sample rates seldom make sense. Anyway, all sample rates should be provided, but selecting another bit rate instead of 32-bit float very unlikely is useful for anybody using averaged x86 or x86_64, aka amd64 hardware and common Linux audio apps. >I added your wording with one difference (using latency instead of >response) but happy to change that back if need be. That option can be >more verbose too, but will require a bit of a layout tweak in that >case. It's not my wording, I quoted Audiobus settings. 128 frames isn't the frame size providing the lowest latency, just Audiobus mentions this. I wouldn't add a recommendation, but the information about device load and response/latency/delay is useful, even a default of 256 is useful for a lot of audio tasks, smaller would be better, but with a max of 256 it becomes interesting for e.g. guitar effects and smaller than 256 easily could cause xruns. For anything else 1024 might be the better default. 1024 is the default provided by Jack. For experienced audio users and novices willing to learn your app is crap. The target group are users who don't have a clue and who are unwilling to learn. You need to make it easy for them, but actually you make it harder, by mixing jack settings, with settings that are not directly related to jack and by providing the same choice jack provides. Don't! Provide a first choice, 1. music production, 2. other audio productions (radio etc.) and 3. audio for anything else. Don't provide to chose between PA bridge and things like this. Disable PA for music production and enable it for other audio productions and don't launch Jack at all, for anything else. Everybody understanding the terms and/or willing to learn should purge this app. Everybody who wants it as easy as possible, should simply get an option to chose between sane defaults, don't offer grotesque options, such as different bit depths. Regards, Ralf -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
