[LAU] Run all audio through Jack?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Oct 17 01:38:52 EDT 2009


Jeff Sandys wrote:
> 
> Jonathan E. Brickman-2 wrote:
>> ... The question is:  Is there any reason why I 
>> should not be running all audio through Jack?  I heard that through 
>> .asoundrc one can achieve this quite easily, and it strikes me as a way 
>> to speed up the process of setup for a gig, ...
>>
>> J.E.B.
>>
> One reason not to use jack for all your sounds is you don't want mouse 
> clicks, OS warnings and "you've got mail" sounds going to your audience 
> or recording.  Pulseaudio is intended to handle those regular user sounds 
> but can have terrible latency and lack of control for the musician, even 
> with the pulse-jack connection.

Or just turn off the useless annoying crappy system noises ... ;-)

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David
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