[LAU] Mulitple sound caards with Jackd

Jonathan E. Brickman jeb at ponderworthy.com
Mon Sep 20 22:36:55 UTC 2010


> netjack over localhost does not make sense. you can just use jackd on
> your primary soundcard and alsa_[in|out] on your secondary. but the
> realtime resampling will either chew up insane amounts of cpu, or
> degrade the sound, or both. ok for telephony or for listening to
> unimportant stuff over small speakers, but not for serious work.
The point is, with netjack over localhost there is no realtime
resampling.  I have a very high quality PCI sound card with RCA outs,
and when I gig with this rig I don't want to be lugging around the USB
device I'm going to need for additional inputs.

J.E.B.



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