18 Nov
2013
18 Nov
'13
1:12 p.m.
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 14:53 +0800, michael noble wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:58 AM, jmancine <jason(a)mancine.net> wrote:
but you would probably find it
better to use a separate playback device for monitoring when
it comes to the
R16, and DAW recording in general.
That seems to contradict even my admittedly basic understanding of how
digital audio devices work. Mixing unsynced devices for simultaneous
I/O is asking for trouble. JACK has no inbuilt capacity for
synchronizing devices, so you will get clock drift and as far as I
know potential sample misalignment between what you are listening to
and what you are recording. Using a single device with the same clock
for both input and output is always preferable, followed by two
devices with some kind of hard sync if possible, followed by an
aggregate driver level (ALSA in Linux) device only if the other
options are unavailable. I've probably made a mess of explaining this,
but there are multiple articles on the web about the importance of
clock sync if you want to read up on it.
Professional gear can be synced by hardware and devices that don't have
a sync option can be synced by software. I don't remember the name, at
least this seems to do the job using libsamplerate:
http://jackaudio.org/multiple_devices
Wasn't there an app written by Fons too?
Regards,
Ralf