22 Oct
2002
22 Oct
'02
12:46 p.m.
JACK
*isn't* intended for general use, and i get tired of suggestions
that it should be. there are lots of people working on solutions for
"general use". JACK is intended for people who are serious about
audio.
I'd like to add that not all JACK developers are as strict about this as
Paul ;), but it's true that something more concrete than And I think you can run JACK using pretty much any
ALSA-supported
soundcard. It's just that we cannot guarantee good performance or flawless
operation in these cases. These cards will also cause problems to other
applications. It's just that JACK makes these problems much more explicit.
one set of problems arise with consumer interfaces that don't keep
their capture and playback streams in sync with each other. another
set of problems comes from thos interfaces that don't allow mmap, but
there are almost none of those in current production. another set of
problems arise with cards that have unusual buffer size/division
constraints. other than that, there's nothing about the way JACK uses
ALSA that stops it from working (as Kai said) on pretty much any ALSA
supported soundcard. almost any audio interface that someone who is
"into audio" would use work excellently with JACK (and, not
coincidentally, with ASIO).
and guess what? if there is, you can get the source code and you can
fix it (or reimplement the ALSA driver/client if its basic design is a
problem).
--p