alsa_out
Jack clients that perform I/O with an alternate audio interface
Synopsis
alsa_in
[options]
alsa_out [options]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
source
echo "Starting:
alsa_out ${ao_opts[*]}"
alsa_out "${ao_opts[@]}" &
echo "${loop_c_params['rate']}
${loop_c_params['channels']}" \
source
pkill alsa_out || true
pkill jack.scope || true
# USB sound card JACK ports
alsa_in -d hw:default -c 1 -q 1 -p 2048 >/dev/null &
alsa_in -d hw:default -c 1 -q 1 -p 2048 >/dev/null &
alsa_out -d hw:default -c 2 -q 1 -p 2048 >/dev/null &
# Jack Oscilloscope (Bus.oscope[] in
ChucK)
description
A JACK client
that opens a specified audio interface (different to the one
used by the JACK server, if any) and moves audio data
between its JACK ports and the interface. alsa_in will
provide data from the interface (potentially for capture);
alsa_out will deliver data to it (for playback).
The audio
interface used by alsa_in/alsa_out does not need to be
synchronized with JACK backend (or the hardware it might be
using). alsa_in/alsa_out tries to resample the output stream
in an attempt to compensate for drift between the two
clocks.
As of
jack-0.116.3 this works almost perfectly. It takes some
time, to reach absolute resample-rate stability. So give it
some minutes (its intended to be running permanently
anyways)
options
-j
jack_client_name
Set Client Name.
-d
alsa_device
Use this Soundcard.
-v
Verbose, prints out resample coefficient and other
parameters useful for debugging, every 500ms. also reports
soft xruns.
-i
Instrumentation. This logs the 4 important parameters of
the samplerate control algorithm every 1ms. You can pipe
this into a file, and plot it. Should only be necessary, if
it does not work as expected, and we need to adjust some of
the obscure parameters, to make it work. Find me on
irc.freenode.org #jack in order to set this up
correctly.
-c
channels
Set Number of channels.
-r
sample_rate
Set sample_rate. The program
resamples as necessary. So you can connect a 44k1 jackd to a
soundcard only supporting 48k. (default is jack
sample_rate)
-p
period_size
Set the period size. It is not
related to the jackd period_size. Sometimes it affects the
quality of the delay measurements. Setting this lower than
the jackd period_size will only work, if you use a higher
number of periods.
-n
num_period
Set number of periods. See note
for period_size.
-q
quality
Set the quality of the
resampler from 0 to 4. can significanly reduce cpu
usage.
-m
max_diff
The value when a soft xrun
occurs. Basically the window, in which the dma pointer may
jitter. I don’t think its necessary to play with this
anymore.
-t
target_delay
The delay alsa_io should try to
approach. Same as for max_diff. It will be setup based on
-p and -n which is generally sufficient.
-s
smooth_array_size
This parameter controls the
size of the array used for smoothing the delay measurement.
Its default is 256. If you use a pretty low period size, you
can lower the CPU usage a bit by decreasing this parameter.
However most CPU time is spent in the resampling so this
will not be much.
-C P Control
Clamp
If you have a PCI card, then
the default value (15) of this parameter is too high for
-p64 -n2... Setting it to 5 should fix that. Be
aware that setting this parameter too low, lets the hf noise
on the delay measurement come through onto the resamplerate,
so this might degrade the quality of the output. (but its a
threshold value, and it has been chosen, to mask the noise
of a USB card, which has an amplitude which is 50 times
higher than that of a PCI card, so 5 wont loose you any
quality on a PCI card)
author
Torben Hohn