[LAD] 9 soundcards ?

[Matt Flax]

What is the use case for many sound cards ?

Is it channel count or the need for networking or both ?


Matt


On 12/11/19 8:41 am, Nick Copeland wrote:
> * I'd like to run up to nine soundcards with Jack. *
>
> Ha, I'll raise you two. I'd like to run 11 sounds cards with Jack. At 
> 192 mega bored.
> Raise me if you dare, I have a good hand, it's prime.
>
> "at the end of the day its nil nil at half time???.
> Trevor Brooking
>
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> *Subject:* [LAD] 9 soundcards ?
> Hello,
> * I'd like to run up to nine soundcards with Jack. *
>
> Eight times Expert Sleepers ES-8 via USB
> and one RME Madi HDSPe card on a PCIe slot.
>
> In Linux at 96 kilobauds.
>
> I read here
> https://jackaudio.org/faq/multiple_devices.html
> about clocking issues as each card is run by it's own clock.
>
> *Will the asynchronously clocked streams be handled and merged by Jack 
> or is this an ongoing issue? *
>
> I imagine, if I'd feed analog outputs of one card into the analog 
> inputs of another, this wouldn't be ideal.
> But I am wondering if Jack is handling the asynchronous streams in the 
> software-domain without glitches ect. ?
>
> *With a powerful computer is the latency going to rise absurdly high? 
> Any experience with this? *
>
>
> As Jack-Devel-List is dead, I'm asking here.
>
> With best regards,
>  Manuel
>
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