I couldn't find any information about JACK and ALSA in the Pure Data manual. While recently working on an ALSA-related bug, I realized this gap in the documentation. I'm considering creating a pull request (PR) to add detailed information about the audio frameworks used in Pure Data. I'd appreciate any suggestions on what specific aspects I should include in the PR.

What kind of information do you mean?
What these audio systems are, or how they are used in PD?

This can be quite a deep rabbit-hole, so maybe define the boundaries of what you need to know.

@dreamer Information regrading how they are used in Pd is what I am concentrating on currently , but still it covers a lot of thing . I'd appreciate any suggestions on what specific aspects I should include in the PR for the community.

@vk092 said:

@dreamer Information regrading how they are used in Pd is what I am concentrating on currently , but still it covers a lot of thing . I'd appreciate any suggestions on what specific aspects I should include in the PR for the community.

I guess, if anything, I'd suggest to keep it minimal. The main things users will care about are:

• How to choose a specific audio device
• How to set sample rate, bit depth etc.

Detailed ALSA configuration instructions... I wouldn't see much benefit in duplicating existing online materials.

Also... Pipewire is coming fast (Ubuntu Studio 24.04 ships with pipewire as the default audio system, no longer JACK). So, if you're going to write up something about audio frameworks, it would be great to handle this in advance. My understanding is that it's supposed to be as simple as doing pw-jack pd-gui instead of just pd-gui but when is it ever that simple...? (Haven't tried pipewire myself yet, maybe it is that simple.)

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