Hey there, I'm the leader of the KXStudio Team. KXStudio uses 'pulse-jack' (or 'pulse2jack' in the upcoming Cadence app), that force kills pulseaudio and restarts it in JACK only mode. afaik, this is not what UbuntuStudio wants/needs. My way of doing things makes the assumption that JACK is *always* running, or you won't get any sound at all. The "just works" factor are just some python scripts that auto-start JACK at session login. KXStudio also uses Cadence, a small (unfinished) app that manages the whole audio system. The application is not finished (no even in alpha state), although I have it auto-installed in KXStudio setups. I would _love_ to see this integrated in UbuntuStudio, and I'm really working hard towards it, but of course it's not gonna happen this cycle. (Perhaps this give us a chance of creating a super great release for the LTS...) Some pics follow: <a href="http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/tmp/scr002.jpeg">http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/tmp/scr002.jpeg</a> <a href="http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/tmp/scr003.jpeg">http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/tmp/scr003.jpeg</a> <a href="http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/tmp/scr004.jpeg">http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/tmp/scr004.jpeg</a> Anyway, the pulse-jack thing is in here: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/1401209/+listing-archive-extra">https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/1401209/+listing-archive-extra</a> Use it as you wish, this is just a script ;)