From: tim h. <te...@gl...> - 2004-06-26 15:32:02
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Last Friday 25 June 2004 21:00, Silvan was like: > Well, it *should* be possible to have it both ways. =A0I just find it > surprising that your first result was better quality out of JACK than > directly through the ALSA output. =A0Especially since you're geting xruns > with JACK. =A0I would expect JACK to sound like crap. =A0I have an 800 MH= z box > with an ens1371 where I can't use JACK and QSynth together at all because > it just sounds soooooo bad. =A0I have to use the ALSA output, and run > Rosegarden without JACK. Well, you just made me feel a whole lot better about the results I'm gettin= g=20 out of my 600MHz box! I'm using the AGNULA patched 2.4.25-multimedia kernel= =20 and I can do 10.7msec _with_ occasional xruns (it's good for recording, not= =20 so for playback) or 42.7msec if I want to be guaranteed xrun free. I can do= =20 JACK + QSynth + Rosegarden + ecasound if I'm economic with memory usage. Or= =20 JACK + RG + 1 other more 'expensive' app like Hydrogen or ZynAddSubFX. I'm running it on top of Openbox3 with most services disabled. I have no=20 Windows install to compare it with ;-] thanks, I'm going to stop worrying=20 about optimising my system now and get on with what I can do with what I've= =20 got. cheers tim hall |