[LAU] A "silence signal"?

[Robin Gareus]

On 04/20/2014 10:07 PM, Harry van Haaren wrote:
> Just start jack: it "outputs" silence so to speak. Jack clients output is
> then added to the silence, when you make a connection.
> 
> So to speak: there is some extra processing that can be avoided in the
> implementation, but that's not what the question is about here now :)
> 
> Hth, -Harry
> 

if for whatever reason you need a jack-port that provides explicit silence:

 cat /dev/zero | jack-stdin silence

but you may just as well leave the target port disconnected, as Harry
said it's silent by default.

ciao,
robin