[LAU] Jackd ... add device

Bob van der Poel bob at mellowood.ca
Sat Feb 2 02:10:29 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:36 AM, S C Rigler <riglersc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, exactly. Can you share the command like options you use to get it
working? I just tried "alsa_in -d alsa -d mydevice" and it gave me
awful recording (well, mostly just static).

thanks.

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