Using JACK with Audacity
The JACK Audio Connection Kit is a marvelous creation. Its original creator was Paul Davis, and now Mr. Davis and a team of developers support JACK. It is a professional-quality, low-latency sound server for Linux and any POSIX-compliant operating system such as Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and IRIX. Currently it runs well on Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD.
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Phonon (in KDE4) doesn’t get in the way when you’re using Audacity, but Pulse-Audio often does, so see Turning PulseAudio and Phonon Off in Turning PulseAudio and Phonon Off to learn how to disable it.
JACK acts like a switchboard to route audio signals between your audio hardware and software without adding latency. JACK can interface with only one sound card at ...
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