Mark Knecht wrote: Yes. But the code is not written. JACK is the only option for low latency. There are plans to make artsd jackified but noone has started on it ASFAIK. Not unless the oss apps can connect through jack which is possible but the code has not been written -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== "Um...symbol_get and symbol_put... They're kindof like does anyone remember like get_symbol and put_symbol I think we used to have..." - Rusty Russell in his talk on the module subsystem

Steve, My hardware is an RME Hammerfall Light. I don't know how to determine if the hardware supports multiple open. Is this easy to figure out? Even if it does, my understanding is that it doesn't have a mixer, so am I any further forward? I'm not sure... I think the 'best' solution is to get all the soft synths set up to use jack, correct? If so, then I guess my job is to lobby the developers to make this a priority. Whether they do it soon is yet to be seen. But even having done that, I need to mix the outputs of all these synths into a single stereo signal. As I understand jack it doesn't do this for me, correct? (Actually, I sort of have a hard time sometimes understanding what jack is doing, other than addressing the latency issue, which is important unto itself.) This mixing could be done in Ardour, or possibly in Rosegarden itself where I'm doing the MIDI work in the first place. I still, as you can tell, do not have a very clear picture of how all the audio is being routed between all these apps. Thanks very much, Mark -----Original Message----- From: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Steve Harris Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:07 AM To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] All at the same time? On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:59:09AM +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Or your hardware supports multiple open, eg. the soundblaser live and Maestro3 - though both these cards are pretty lousy in other ways. - Steve

Very cool Paul. I did not understand that. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Paul Winkler Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 3:18 PM To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] All at the same time? On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:28:25AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: synths me, Incorrect. Jack will mix any number of sources attached to the same port. So just attach all the synths to the same 2 jack ports. (e.g. alsa_pcm:out_1 and alsa_pcm:out_2 ... soon to be renamed alsa_pcm:playback_1, alsa_pcm:playback_2 or something like that) --PW -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"