> Everyone needs jack, they just dont know it yet ;) Surely if Audacity is the only audio app running then it would be more efficient to access the alsa drivers directly? > If this is your feeling > then the right thing to do is to fix jack to make it less arcane. Ideas > welcome. It would be good if it could start and run as easily as other daemons - I know there are attempts being made to address this, such as jackstart. I guess it will be better when jack is fully integrated into distros, with the necessary kernel patches for capabilities etc. One of the main things that put me off using jack with audacity is that with the standalone program I didn't think I had any latency problems. I tried running jack and it told me I have xruns... Can jack verbose output be directed to a console so that you could check for xruns with ctrl-alt-f7 or whatever? I seem to remember trying this and it made the xruns worse! Cheers Daniel
