An Introduction to Linux Audio (O'Reilly)

An Introduction to Linux Audio (O'Reilly)

Posted Aug 3, 2007 19:55 UTC (Fri) by johnkarp (subscriber, #39285)
In reply to: An Introduction to Linux Audio (O'Reilly) by rfunk
Parent article: An Introduction to Linux Audio (O'Reilly)

Say you are using a computer to do audio recording in a studio. With Jack,
you could route inputs from various audio interfaces into various effects
plugins, send some to a multitrack recorder, and also combine them all
into a mix for the musicians, so they can play off the effects. During the
recording session, you can easily reroute the signals from a central
patchbay.

You could probably hack together a workalike with other Linux audio
technologies, but it would be unusable because of the latencies. (Its
difficult to play an instrument well when you can only hear what you were
playing 0.3 seconds ago.)

I don't think Jack will become the standard general-purpose audio API
though, because each user on a system requires a separate Jack daemon that
has to run with realtime priviledges.

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