Robert Jonsson wrote: Now that I think about it, no, I'm not sure about that. I've usually reserved JACK use for Ardour, so I might not have ever tried running a non-JACK app with the server open. I'm pretty sure Snd operates in just that manner, and I understand what you're telling me. I also tried opening it with jacklaunch but got no joy. :( Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org

resample. this is reputedly why the creative cards sound so poor. Even if your stream is at the cards nominal rate of 48k, it still gets resampled. its quite an insidious degredation though. If you listen to the spdif output of the sblive it seems to sound ok, but if you compare it to the output of a 'proper' card then the difference is imediately apparent (if you are sensitive to these things). A lot of detail and beauty is lost. cheers -- Tim Orford

"Mark Knecht" <mknecht(a)controlnet.com> wrote: I use 24/96 for audio editing... lets me crank volumes, settings, etc without major feedback, clipping and so on... not to mention that the sound's a hell of a lot richer. If something works out well I'll save it in several different bit depths 24/96 for a reference file and 16/48 and 24/48 for sequencing. DVDs are 48. {Stock} I'd like to sequence at higher bitrates but I tend to wonder how many folks home stereo can do anything worthwhile with 24/96. ...Surround, on the other hand bears exploration. Everyone's got it... not a lot of folk author for it. {as far as bands go anyway... spacialization, putting the rumble on both sides of the listener, having that floaty/sparkly noise swim in front of their face and throwing spears of reverberating high frequency stuff at them from the center channel, etc...}