[LAU] Jackd ... add device

[S C Rigler]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:00 AM, James Harkins <jamshark70 at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I tried alsa_out once upon a time, to handle a 4-channel-out USB interface
> that appears to Linux as two stereo devices. It was a complete disaster. After
> booting Jack and launching alsa_out, it took between 5 and 10 minutes before the
> devices would synchronize. Before that, constant glitching. Then, if I left the
> devices silent for a time, they would go out of sync again after a few minutes.
> More glitching.
>
> At that point, I started to feel that was no longer a viable solution to
> explore. I (still) wouldn't trust alsa_out or _in for anything serious.
>
> YMMV.
>
> hjh
>

My primary audio interface is an Echo AudioFire 4 and I'll
occasionally use alsa_in to route a (mono) M-Audio JamLab into
Guitarix.  It works well enough for that and what the OP was asking
sounded like a similar case.

--Steve