re. there is no internal system for making fx sent/return busses? All the fx have to be used as inserts then.
kind of. yes. buses in qtractor are not the same as you find on other DAWs;
buses in qtractor are internal mix-down interface devices with no complete resemblance with those of analog studio mixer consoles which all the other DAWs try to mimic. and to great extent succeeded. but not in qtractor, sorry. buses in qtractor have somewhat restricted semantics, so to speak ;)
of course you can have fx inserts in qtractor, either inline (plugins) or external (ie. standalone jack clients), the later being the purpose of qtractor send/return inserts (aka. pseudo-plugins, got that?)
tbh. what's at stake here is one of the qtractor shortcomings, silent limitations, if it makes it sound more softly--you are just advised to not connect any of its (jack) audio output ports to any of its own audio input ports. results of doing that depends too deeply on implementation (ie. code path). and that, my friend, is subject to change by the minute :)
bottom line says there's a contingent from current qtractor DSP flow internal design. yada yada. it might get fixed eventually, circumvented in some near future or never will... but now, i'm sure to tell you that it is not.
re, what audio devices you use?
all that are alsa supported ie. pci, usb and mostly anything else but firewire.
re. there is no internal system for making fx sent/return busses? All the fx have to be used as inserts then.
kind of. yes. buses in qtractor are not the same as you find on other DAWs;
buses in qtractor are internal mix-down interface devices with no complete resemblance with those of analog studio mixer consoles which all the other DAWs try to mimic. and to great extent succeeded. but not in qtractor, sorry. buses in qtractor have somewhat restricted semantics, so to speak ;)
of course you can have fx inserts in qtractor, either inline (plugins) or external (ie. standalone jack clients), the later being the purpose of qtractor send/return inserts (aka. pseudo-plugins, got that?)
tbh. what's at stake here is one of the qtractor shortcomings, silent limitations, if it makes it sound more softly--you are just advised to not connect any of its (jack) audio output ports to any of its own audio input ports. results of doing that depends too deeply on implementation (ie. code path). and that, my friend, is subject to change by the minute :)
bottom line says there's a contingent from current qtractor DSP flow internal design. yada yada. it might get fixed eventually, circumvented in some near future or never will... but now, i'm sure to tell you that it is not.
re, what audio devices you use?
all that are alsa supported ie. pci, usb and mostly anything else but firewire.
sorry :)