I can't reproduce it, I see following: marxin@marxinbox:/tmp> zynaddsubfx ZynAddSubFX - Copyright (c) 2002-2013 Nasca Octavian Paul and others Copyright (c) 2009-2019 Mark McCurry [active maintainer] This program is free software (GNU GPL v2 or later) and it comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Try 'zynaddsubfx --help' for command-line options. Sample Rate = 44100 Sound Buffer Size = 256 samples Internal latency = 5.8 ms ADsynth Oscil.Size = 1024 samples lo server running on 15101 [INFO] Nio::start() Starting Audio: JACK Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jackdmp 1.9.12 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. Copyright 2004-2016 Grame. Copyright 2016-2017 Filipe Coelho. jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details Cannot create RT messagebuffer thread: Operation not permitted (1) Retrying messagebuffer thread without RT scheduling Messagebuffer not realtime; consider enabling RT scheduling for user no message buffer overruns Cannot create RT messagebuffer thread: Operation not permitted (1) Retrying messagebuffer thread without RT scheduling Messagebuffer not realtime; consider enabling RT scheduling for user no message buffer overruns Cannot create RT messagebuffer thread: Operation not permitted (1) Retrying messagebuffer thread without RT scheduling Messagebuffer not realtime; consider enabling RT scheduling for user no message buffer overruns JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10 self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests" Cannot lock down 86611866 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory) audio_reservation_init Acquire audio card Audio0 creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode JackTemporaryException : now quits... Released audio card Audio0 audio_reservation_finish Cannot initialize driver JackServer::Open failed with -1 Failed to open server Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock Error, failed to open jack client on server: status 17 Error, NULL jackClient through Start() ERROR: The default audio output failed to open! Starting MIDI: ALSA MIDI Started [INFO] exec-after-init [INFO] startup OSC [INFO] UI calbacks [INFO] OSC replay midi list updating... [INFO] auto_save setup [INFO] NSM Stuff [INFO] LASH Stuff [INFO] Main Loop...