Reply to pd with jack on macos on Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:29:08 GMT

Kosmas — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:29:08 GMT

hi everyone,

it's been some time since I worked with pd and jack on a macos so I want to ask a couple of things:

how can I run pd from the terminal (the goal is to be able to start multiple instances of pd)
I have started the jack audio server with the coreaudio as driver. How can pd see jack (I guess something like pd -jack from the terminal) and be routed through it?

I am running the Catalina version 10.15.7

Thanks!

Reply to pd with jack on macos on Sun, 22 Nov 2020 23:01:02 GMT

beep.beep — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 23:01:02 GMT

@Kosmas Hi there, I haven't (successfully) used jack on Mac (I'm also on 10.15.7), but this is what I use to run Pd from the terminal:

/Applications/Pd-0.51-3.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd /Users/*your*/*path*/*to*/*your*/patch.pd```

I also use several flags depending on what other options I want (-nogui, -channels, -audiobuf, etc.), maybe the -audiodev or -jack flags would get things working? I think I've seen some discussion recently on Pd-list/Github about jack & macos, and if memory serves, it isn't a simple solution...