Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA, JACK, ASIO

[Rick B <zajelo3@cfl.rr.com>]

Brian L Scipioni wrote:

>Thanks.  A couple more ASIO questions:
>
>Could the ASIO protocol be implemented on top of ALSA or within JACK? 
>Would it provide for low(er) latency operation on cards that support it?
>Would ASIO perhaps just provide some parallel functionality that is
>already represented in ALSA and/or JACK?
>
>thanks,
>brian
>
>
>On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 19:04, Jack O'Quin wrote:
>  
>
>>Brian L Scipioni <brian@gaugetheory.org> writes:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>This may not be an alsa issue but:
>>>
>>>Can/does ASIO run on top of ALSA using JACK? JACK claims the "-a" option
>>>for ASIO  on supported cards, but it will not accept the option. jackd
>>>-h does not list the option, but the docs at LAU Guide do.
>>>
>>>jackd -a -d alsa
>>>      
>>>
>>The poorly-named --asio option was removed from JACK a year or two
>>ago.  It had nothing to do with running any real ASIO code in Linux,
>>but just described an option for checking realtime overruns "similar"
>>to the way ASIO (presumably) does.
>>    
>>
>
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    From what I've been reading the Linux audio kernels are already 
capable of latencies lower than the ASIO drivers. Someone can correct me 
if I'm wrong though.

                   Rick B



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