once more jack audio

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once more jack audio

i am trying to get jack audio to work, windows based maschine running win 10 and jack 64 bit , goal is routing traktor thru ableton, if spend a lot of time reading up and trying several settings but its driving me crazy…jack port audio is starting up using the portaudi driver, when i try to start jack control i get the message could not start jack, thats it, no idea what is wrong or why :rage::rage::rage:

tried this with al my interfaces including the default, cananybody shine some light on this …:scream:

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Yes.

Windows is shite.

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txhs helpfull…wilthrow out my brand new laptop and buy a mac …:scream:

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It could be 1 of a hundred reasons - you don’t give very much info to go on.

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I messed around with Jack Audio for a long time on Windows 7 about two months ago and finally got it to work. Funny enough I don’t use it because of the hassle it causes me for external mixing but overall I think we share the same concept of its potential. Anyway I’ll share my struggle and give any pointers, feel free to give some more information as well.

I went through a few issues when setting it up.

-Traktor wouldn’t accept all ports and crash when setting up ports
Solution: Use HiFi virtual audio cable asio bridge

-Ableton would only route 2 outputs.
Solution: Same
-Wouldn’t play because issue with sample rate changing.
Tried installing focusrite beta drivers which didn’t help and made my device worse.
Solution: Stuck with 44khz
-Couldn’t change outputs in foobar (because of Jack)
Solution: Uninstalled Jack (just another hassle)

One thing I do recall, is when you open the software via the shorcut, you can select sample and bit rate but when selecting your driver use parenthesis or else the spaces will mess everything up.

Give me a shout, I might set it back up again since I reconfigured my soundcard to the best it can be after those dodgy drivers. I don’t really know much about windows 10 (I heard you can use multiple outputs though) but all I can tell you is that it really is a pain in the ass to setup.

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This is the info i get when starting it up, in the message box it just say’s sorry cant start jack control. It seems jack port audio is starting up because i can see it as an audio driver within ableton and traktor, but its the control part that’s causing problems, funny thing i had it running but somewhere i made a change and it went dead on me. Tried to uninstall and do a complete reinstall to revert back to a previous state but that did not work.

Oh for the record: I run trator 64 bit on windows 10,I7 with 16 GB and use the DB4 as soundcard so i am mixing externally, i run a native audio 2dj soundcard with ableton that is connected to the db4’s mic channel.

I never had any problems with traktor on win 10 and the db4 its all running great at 8.9 ms latency so no problems there, even running ableton and maschine next to it is flawless.

What i would like to do: send one of the traktor channels thru ableton and back to the db4 either via the native soundcard or direct to the db4 soundcard

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once again, very helpfull..thxs…:confused:

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i know but it’s the best way , everything work fine on it with all your daws easily :wink:

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everything but jack audio is working just fine, i am running maschine, Traktor and ableton 9.6.1 at the same time, where ableton and maschine are slaved to traktors midi clock everything in sync so no complaints so far…

and i am confident that the problem with jack audio is not because of windows and it will work somehow…and if not, also not a problem, i am just trying to figure out the way i would like to play…

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I don’t have Windows 10 (7 here) so can’t say but jack was released before it came out so don’t be surprised if you have issues running it.

Are you using the 32 or 64 bit version?
Have you regsitered the dll?
Have you confirmed jack control is running via command prompt?
You shouldn’t be using the portaudio driver - I use Asio4All.
You can check the available asio devices by running the following command prompt in the jack folder:
jackd -d portaudio -l

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I had it running …for a short while …then i made some changes… i am running the 64 bit version and there is a new GUI that shows available drivers in the setup box…so no need for the command line anymore . The dll is registered although in the latest setup there is no need for that anymore, to be save i did it manually also.

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I did a reinstall and the only way I found to emulate your problem of it not starting in the message log is by not opening Jack NetDriver prior to the Jack Control. You may just want to reinstall and keep a tab on the changes you did (assuming you haven’t done this already).

Other than that I can’t change individual settings sample rate/buffer time. I’ve tried in the shortcut and from Jack Control shortcut but it still stays at default, maybe you guys had better luck there. I have some more tinkering to do I suppose.

Edit: Got it to work so I’ll post the steps/settings since its fairly finicky.

Uninstalled and reinstalled in full as well as unregistering and reregistering the server in cmd.

Before opening Jack control:

-In the Jack PortAudio shortcut in the target: “Your install directory\jackd.exe” -R -S -d portaudio -d “ASIO::Your driver” -r samplerate -p bufferrate

-Go to JackRouter config file in 32bits and 64bits edit those you your liking. I did both but they may not need to.

[IO]
Input=number input channels you want
Output=number output channels you want
float-sample=0

[Auto_Connect]
input=1
output=1
alias=1

-Opened Jack Port Audio
-Opened Jack Control

In Jack Control my settings that portaudio allow
Server Prefix: jackd -S
Name: default
Driver: portaudio
Realtime: check
Interface: default
Frames: 256
Dither: None
Sample Rate: 48000
Audio: Duplex
Input: Default
Output: Default
Channels:24
Channels I/O: 12,12
Port Maximum: 256
Latency I/O: Default,Default

Under Display Tab

Transport Time Code
Enable client/port aliases: check
Enable client/port aliases editing: check
Jack client/port aliases: Changed to Default from second

Misc Tab
Start JACK audio server on application startup: check
Stop JACK audio Server on application exit: check
Save JACK audio server configuration to: .jackdrc
Confirm server shutdown: check

Hopefully this can help you out. This is just my routing of Traktor to Ableton but I’m sure your connections shouldn’t pose that much of a problem.