You can do that right now (alsa_in/out or zita-ajbridge) but it will
move you into the realm of clocks drift. It might not matter that much
depending on your use case but you said "sampling rate when I'm doing
pro audio work". It might not be that pro audio anymore. I have not
tested pipewire but I can't imagine that pipewire and multiple cards
would be any better in that respect.
There's more to pipewire than that. It's a different audio model, so I
would say it probably does work better to use multiple interfaces. It's
worked better for me in pipewire than with alsa_in/out at least. I've
tried alsa_in/out, but it is a delicate process.
There are more benefits than the one I gave (like unified video
support), but that was the one feature that really blew me away.
On 11/1/21 05:14, Bengt Gördén wrote:
On 2021-11-01 01:44, Brandon Hale wrote:
However, being able to use multiple sound cards at the same time is
probably going to eventually bring me over to using pipewire
You can do that right now (alsa_in/out or zita-ajbridge) but it will
move you into the realm of clocks drift. It might not matter that much
depending on your use case but you said "sampling rate when I'm doing
pro audio work". It might not be that pro audio anymore. I have not
tested pipewire but I can't imagine that pipewire and multiple cards
would be any better in that respect.
For solution with multiple cards have a look at:
https://jackaudio.org/faq/multiple_devices.html
And a discussion:
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/using-two-different-soundcards-with-ardour/105727
I tested the alsa_in/alsa_out solution a few years ago out of sheer
curiosity and it worked, but I would not trust it for an important
live recording.
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