Hi,
I have the flatpak 8.2 install on a Ubuntu 23.10 dist.
Everybody knows the problems with flatpak, it’s not the subject here.
I wanted to try a “normal” install of Ardour, so I get the 8.4 demo, to see if it works before buying/contrib.
But it doesn’t.
With the flatpak 8.2, I have Jack working thru Pipewire (jack is not installed), and it works fine, I see the connections in qpwgraph, I can change whatever I want, and I see both sound cards (my Uphoria UMC204HD and my internal Intel soundcard).
With Ardour 8.4, the Alsa engine works, but it seems to be exclusive to Ardour, no other apps (firefox, etc…) works, the UMC204HD is no longer in qpwgraph or Pavucontrol. Ardour itself doesn’t show in the graph.
I tried to set up Ardour 8.4 to work with Pipewire/jack, as I did with the 8.2 version, but it says that Ardour cannot connect to the audio/midi engine.
I’m a bit disappointed … I’d really like to get rid of this flatpak version.