[LAU] jack and the merging of soundcards

[Ede Wolf]

I may perspectively run into a shortage of audio inputs and stumbled 
across a blog, that reads like it is possbile to "merge" two soundcards 
into one virtual, that eventually looks as a single one to alsa. 
However, that blog does not mention jack.

Also, in an stone old ardour thread Paul Davis suggests to a similar 
problem: ", then you simply get 2 digifaces", but again, this may have 
been before the rise of jack.


And now I am wondering wether this is a possible or even reliable way to 
trick jack into being able to to finally handle more than one soundcard, 
if presented by alsa as being a single one.

I am honest, that asoundrc is way beyond me, as alsa alway has been, 
thats why I am asking and I am thinking about using two ordinary, 1st 
generation, pre HDSP, Hammerfall cards to expand ADAT IO. Would be 
cheaper than investing into a raydat, when time has finally come.

The posts for reference:

http://soundofsyntax.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/how-to-configure-ubuntu-11-10-for-using-2-rme-pci-hammerfall-dsp-madi-cards-together/

https://community.ardour.org/node/141

Any thoughts on this? Or won't it work with jack?