Re: [Jack-Devel] speaker management
On Tue, December 11, 2012 9:55 am, István Király wrote:
>
> Hi folks, ...
>
> I'm looking for a way to manage a club sound
> system, and instead of buying relative expensive dedicated hardware
> sound processors, (XTA, Xilica, .. etc) thought of buying sound cards
> and do the processing - delay, FIR filters, etc, - via software. This
> would add me room for additional functionality, remote control, etc, ...
>
> I was reading on the bruteFIR page, that it can work with Jack.
>
> The goal would be to have
> deck's -> up to 4 digital sound channels, possibly AES -> Jack on linux
> -> DA
> Converters -> amplifiers -> speakers
>
> The hardware is expensive, so please share your opinion about this.
> Can the RME HDSPe MADI work smooth with jack and linux - a PCI express
> card?
>
There is an alsa driver but there are a few bugs that are being worked
out. It is in active development and just needs a bit of feedback from the
community for the QA process.
> Or am I better off with some firewire soundcard, like the MOTU 828?
> [financially for sure]
>
It has ffado support so it should be a viable option.
>
> How do I chain bruteFIR into Jack?
>
Start jack. Start brute fir. Connect the jack i/o for brutefir.
>
> And advice welcome. Thank you.
>
With the right hardware and software combo you can do realtime low latency
with JACK. I've installed a couple of club systems with JACK setups. Feel
free to contact me off list if you want to discuss more specific details.
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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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