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7. ThMAD and the JACK Sound Server

Peter Späth1 
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Leipzig, Germany
 

ThMAD normally addresses the PulseAudio sound server. Using the JACK option switches, ThMAD can work with the JACK sound server as well, giving more options in a professional environment. This chapter describes how to use ThMAD with Jack.

Note that Ubuntu is not extraordinarily well suited to working with JACK because Ubuntu serves as a general-purpose desktop operating system and not as a dedicated audio- or video-authoring workstation. With an audio workstation, you would, for example, use a special real-time scheduling kernel with optimized low-latency audio handling. ...

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