Re: [LAU] Jack vs. Alsa, PianoTeq demo: Alsa wins!

From: Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Jun 14 2011 - 10:28:36 EEST

On 06/14/2011 09:11 AM, Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> So the continuing saga is this: still no luck getting Pianoteq with JACK to
> equal or spank with superiority the performance of PianoTeq w/ALSA alone on
> my system.....
>
> I found the following information: the info from the /proc/asound output
> that Paul asked me to check out confirmed that at comparable settings, JACK
> choked where ALSA smoked. I had ALSA down to a period of 64 and 3
> periods/buffer (hardware bufsize of 192) at a sample rate of 48000. The same
> setting of jackd ('jackd -dalsa -dhw:0,0 -r48000 -p64 -n3 -S') didn't agree
> with Pianoteq....
>
> So...here's my dilemma. I have a live show coming up where I'd prefer to use
> the superior harpsichord sound of Pianoteq, but I don't want to risk a
> lock-up or xruns or worse in a live concert. So I would have to use
> ALSA...BUT....I also need to switch to playing a live kalimba through some
> Csound effects right after playing a harpsichord, and Pianoteq under ALSA
> will not stand for another app opening and sharing the soundcard like JACK
> will allow (ALSA will block I/O).
>
> So what can I do?
>
> Best,
> AKJ

Hello Aaron,

Might have missed something but what kind of soundcard are you using?
And why the -S option?

Best,

Jeremy
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