[PD] RME hammerfall

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Tim Blechmann wrote:
>>at the iem we are using the RME/hammerfall/hdsp/multiface cards with 
>>plain alsa (since jack turned out to be far too unreliable).
> 
> but i'm curious about your experience with jack ... is it a problem in
> the architecture of jack or the jack part of pd, that you have been
> thinking about?

hmm...unfortunately i have no real idea (it has been a while...)
what i can say for sure, is that jack appeared to be too much an 
overhead when running big productions with few people (they are stressed 
anyhow, and adding an additional layer "jack" (with all these priority 
issues we had _then_...) would just have been too much
sidenote: the people who were running the show were not really into the 
linux thing, so using linux itself was a stress-factor;

it furthermore didn't convince us to use jack for connecting an 
audio-application with a sound-card: i mean it is ok if you want to 
connect supercollider, pd, ardour, the soundcard, snd and mozilla; but 
just using it for the sake of it, doesn't sound too convincing.

mfg.asdr
IOhannes