On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 14:53 +0800, michael noble wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:58 AM, jmancine <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > but you would probably find it > better to use a separate playback device for monitoring when > it comes to the > R16, and DAW recording in general. > > > That seems to contradict even my admittedly basic understanding of how > digital audio devices work. Mixing unsynced devices for simultaneous > I/O is asking for trouble. JACK has no inbuilt capacity for > synchronizing devices, so you will get clock drift and as far as I > know potential sample misalignment between what you are listening to > and what you are recording. Using a single device with the same clock > for both input and output is always preferable, followed by two > devices with some kind of hard sync if possible, followed by an > aggregate driver level (ALSA in Linux) device only if the other > options are unavailable. I've probably made a mess of explaining this, > but there are multiple articles on the web about the importance of > clock sync if you want to read up on it. Professional gear can be synced by hardware and devices that don't have a sync option can be synced by software. I don't remember the name, at least this seems to do the job using libsamplerate: http://jackaudio.org/multiple_devices Wasn't there an app written by Fons too? Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
