<hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > U are correct in that things will work without the .asoundrc but it's my > understanding that if you just use the "default" for alsa, you lose some > performance.(?) I don't recall exactly, but in using the GUI's (Qjackctl > and jackconnect or whatever it was) that I could not get the ports to show > untill I utilized the ICE1712 .asoundrc for a "hoontech" card that is > posted in the Alsa site, and set the port numbers to "0" in Qjackctl. Then > I got the 10/12 I/O's. Jan Depner pointed me there when I asked all the > same questions after buying my Delta 1010LT. It's true that the ALSA "default" device is a poor choice for JACK. Long ago, the JACK ALSA backend used that as its default. Because that doesn't work very well, that backend was changed to use `-dhw:0' as its default, instead. -- joq
