[clue-tech] KDE soumd question

[Matt Gushee]

Peter H. wrote:

> What about using JACK and jack-connect?

That's what I might suggest, too. Plus maybe the QJackctl GUI. But it 
depends how serious you are about audio applications. JACK takes a fair 
amount of work to set up properly. The biggest thing is that access to 
the realtime clock is highly recommended; in order to do that you either 
need to run JACK as root (bad) or install the realtime-lsm module, which 
   you use to give a normal user (e.g. yourself) realtime access. 
However, realtime-lsm is not provided by most distros, and generally 
requires a custom kernel with some non-standard options. It's really not 
too hard if you have some experience compiling kernels, but still not 
quite for the faint of heart.

That's the bad news. The good news is that JACK supports both ALSA and 
OSS, and there is a large and growing number of audio apps that support 
JACK. So many apps that were-formerly OSS-only can now be used with 
ALSA, and vice versa. And if you use QJackctl, you get a nice graphical 
patchbay in which you can drag-and-drop connections between various apps 
and devices.

Personally, I have found JACK to be well worth the small headaches of 
setting it up. You should just be aware that there are headaches.

--
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA