On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 12:52:13PM +0000, D.T. wrote: > Generally speaking, this is a good explanation: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_engineer#Foldback No, it isn't. IIRC [1], a 'monitor port' in the Jack world is a readable port that provides a copy of the signal(s) arriving at the corresponding writeable port. Suppose you want two (or more) apps to receive the same signal(s), for example A->X, B->X, C->X A->Y, B->Y, C->Y Without monitor ports, if the set A,B,C changes, you have to modify the connections to both X and Y. With monitor ports, you can do A->X, B->X, C->X XM->Y where XM is the monitor port for X, and you need only to change the connections to X. The classical example is a recording or metering app on your playback ports. [1] Jack used to provide optional monitor ports until they were removed some years ago (a bad idea IMHO). It's difficult to find documentation on them these days. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list -- linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to linux-audio-user-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
