Re: [LAD] "El-Cheapo" software-only equivalent

Hi, last night i finally managed to try jackd+alsa_in and yes, it works! I used an intermittent beep as a test signal. One thing i've noticed, is that the master stream is about 450-500 frames early in respect to the slave streams, while the gap among the 3 slave streams is within 35-40 frames. I'll try to tune things up a bit, and see if it get better. ...hmm, it would require some serious math skills that i don't have :-( And moreover, i don't think it would make much sense to seek for sound quality in this context. It is enough to be able to get something barely decent, using only some junk computer parts that were laying around in your attic (...the first version was able to record 4 channels on a Pentium 166 with 24MB of ram :-D ) yeah, actually, i had already stopped working on the core functionality of my program because it was just good enough for my purpose. Now that i know of the existence of alsa_in, i don't think i'm going to release a new project to confuse people even more. Instead, now i was wondering if it could be useful to move the alsa_in functionality to a lower level, like an alsa plugin. But from what you said, i guess the alsa_in algorithm prefers the "always-on" behaviour of jack (it starts capturing immediately as you start the daemon), instead of the start-stop behaviour of a typical pure-alsa recording application. So, i think the answer is no, and alsa_in is simply the perfect tool i've never heard of before! Aaargh :-D (...well, i started putting together my program in dec-2008, so maybe it just wasn't there at the time...) thanks very much to all of you. i'll see if i can create some documentation to make that "alsa_in/alsa_out" tools less ignored, instead of releasing a new software. Obviously, with all the proper disclaimers stating that it's not a substitute for a real multitrack ;-) bye alberto