[LAU] audacity alternative?

[david]

Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> david wrote:
>> cal wrote:
>>> On 11/06/10 23:57, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>>>> [ ... ]
>>>> I use the build-in sound card which is advertised as
>>>> the NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio.
>>>>
>>>> I know I should buy a more sophisticated card but boards like the
>>>> Terratec DMX6fire24/96 or M-Audio Delta 410 have prices here in Holland
>>>> which are way over the prices you pay (€189,00 is the cheapest).
>>>> Moreover I use it to edit using headphones as audio output for computers
>>>> is, in my opinion very bad or you use a pair of studio monitors (I use
>>>> Yamaha 60 W as output boxes for my E-piano for use in small rooms. As
>>>> I'm a jazz-pianist and people prefer to listen so you don't need
>>>> decibels to go over crowd noise!). But those are expensive.
>>>> My jack settings are:
>>>> /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2.
>>> The humble hda can perform ridiculously well for what it is. I'd
>>> recommend
>>> replacing the '-n2' with '-S -n3'. The '-p1024' should be able to go
>>> down to
>>> '-p256' (or even lower) as well.
>> Also, I think the HDA's native rate is 48000, not 44100. At least the
>> ones in my two laptops are.
> 
> I've wondered about this native rate. I always set my onboard cards to
> 48Khz too but I've read here and there that it shouldn't matter,
> especially with modern onboard cards.

Don't know - I don't have any of those around here. ;-)

I seem to remember seeing a system message or some other entry in a log 
once (maybe something connected with ALSA?) that something had timed it 
to 478##+ something and so was setting it to 48K.

> And afaik -n3 is only useful with
> USB1 cards that prefer a latency that is a multiple of their interrupt
> period
> (http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-October/064013.html).

I use -n3 with my USB sound card. I generally don't use the onboard 
audio for sound.

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David
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