Jack Audio

[Elliott Chapin]

On 11/12/2011 06:47 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On my way to soup last week, a HackLabber observed that a system called
> Jack Audio (see http://jackaudio.org/) was somehow worth looking at.
> 
> It seems like a bit of interesting infrastructure if one has a keen need to
> manage a bunch of audio sources that are to share sound on a single Linux
> box.  Not being in much need of such (I tend to use "appliances" to play
> music for me), I'm not sure Jack is truly of any interest to me.  Am I
> missing some crucial application of it that I should be aware of?  Has
> anyone else found it so useful as to care lots?
> 

If you want to do more than play music as is it might be of interest.
E.g,, pipe softsynths, etc., into a multitrack recording studio app.
One way I use Jack involves the Jack symbiot fJack (comes with iForth).

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