What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

[fons adriaensen]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:09:52PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:

> Which audio subsystem should they support? ALSA 
> direct access is no choice because it blocks the device. DMIX 
> is a choice, but what if I want to use JACK simultaneously 
> without using DMIX? 

Is that realistic ? Would you do any serious audio work and
leave all the desktop toys enabled *on the same card* ?

(I don't have any 'desktop' sounds, so for me it's easy :-)

> JACK could become a common audio server but still it isn't.
> Any recommendation which audio system a  programmer should
> use?

For any serious music and audio software there is (for me)
just one answer: JACK, and maybe also ALSA.

For all the rest I think ALSA's dmix device is the right
solution. 

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FA