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

[David Gerard Matthews]

Steve Harris wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:10:39 -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote:
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>>On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>I'd say that AMS, SSM, pd and ecasound mark it as a success :)
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Agreed.  Different apps have different needs.  Jack is probably serious 
overkill
for a lot of simple audio playback needs, but something like MAS [isn't 
that also
the name of MOTU's plugin API?] is obviously not serviceable for 
pro-quality
work.  I agree though that a MAS backend for JACK might be a good thing.
-dgm

>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.
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>- Steve
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