[linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 4 07:56:01 UTC 2003


On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:10:39 -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> 
> > Despite that I strongly think that an audio server that not permit in
> > native way the traditional approach (what you call blocking approach)
> > will never achieve the driving role we'd need.
> 
> Well, given that Ardour, amsynth, alsaplayer, and freqtweak all use jack,
> I'm pretty happy with how it is.  It doesn't need to gain any more
> applications to be considered a success as far as I'm concerned.

I'd say that AMS, SSM, pd and ecasound mark it as a success :)

I dont see how nayone could dismiss JACK in this respect, it does one thing
(lowlatency synced audio for music creation apps) and it does it very well.

- Steve



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