[LAU] Current Developments in Linux Audio ?

[nik at parkellipsen.de]

Hmm ok ... seems like I should really give PipeWire a try. I had heard about 
it but the last time I checked it was still in fairly early development.

Thanks for all the good hints !

Best,
N


Brandon Hale wrote on 02.11.2021 18:48 (GMT +01:00):
> > You can do that right now (alsa_in/out or zita-ajbridge) but it will 
> > move you into the realm of clocks drift. It might not matter that much 
> > depending on your use case but you said "sampling rate when I'm doing 
> > pro audio work". It might not be that pro audio anymore. I have not 
> > tested pipewire but I can't imagine that pipewire and multiple cards 
> > would be any better in that respect.
> There's more to pipewire than that. It's a different audio model, so I 
> would say it probably does work better to use multiple interfaces. It's 
> worked better for me in pipewire than with alsa_in/out at least. I've 
> tried alsa_in/out, but it is a delicate process.
> 
> There are more benefits than the one I gave (like unified video 
> support), but that was the one feature that really blew me away.
> 
> On 11/1/21 05:14, Bengt Gördén wrote:
> > On 2021-11-01 01:44, Brandon Hale wrote:
> >> However, being able to use multiple sound cards at the same time is 
> >> probably going to eventually bring me over to using pipewire
> >
> > You can do that right now (alsa_in/out or zita-ajbridge) but it will 
> > move you into the realm of clocks drift. It might not matter that much 
> > depending on your use case but you said "sampling rate when I'm doing 
> > pro audio work". It might not be that pro audio anymore. I have not 
> > tested pipewire but I can't imagine that pipewire and multiple cards 
> > would be any better in that respect.
> >
> > For solution with multiple cards have a look at:
> > https://jackaudio.org/faq/multiple_devices.html
> >
> > And a discussion:
> >
> https://discourse.ardour.org/t/using-two-different-soundcards-with-ardour/105727
> > 
> >
> >
> > I tested the alsa_in/alsa_out solution a few years ago out of sheer 
> > curiosity and it worked, but I would not trust it for an important 
> > live recording.
> >
> >
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