ALSA 1.0.24 Has Arrived, Bringing Better Linux Audio

[Thatguy]

phenom II 810 isnt slow CPU... but i still can see the problems somethimes 0.5 second sometimes 0,2 but still i can feel latency

as I tried to allude to earlier, for audio capture the design of the linux kernel and the way it schedules workloads is not conducive to managing both capture and monitoring.

[NomadDemon]

phenom II 810 isnt slow CPU... but i still can see the problems somethimes 0.5 second sometimes 0,2 but still i can feel latency

[Wyatt]

kernel updates are once per month

Err...just for curiosity's sake....why? If your kernel works, there's no real reason to NOT leave it alone.

[renkin]

no, i dont use my PC for recording. dont need 1ms latency on my PC just want to have full synchro youtube and sound, rhythmbox and sound, its already next song, and still lastone plays[same other players, a little move like 0,5sec pure alsa doesnt have this latency problem, only adding PA have

As far as I know, ALSA utilizes the hardware to do audio mixing, but Pulseaudio does sound mixing in software, so it probably uses the CPU quite a bit. So you might have problems running Pulseaudio on lowend CPU's..

That said, I'm using a core2duo and Pulseaudio works fine for me. I'm not sure what the minimal requirements are, but I'm in the clear! .. It seems like ALSA works for you, why don't you just use pure ALSA without pulseaudio added on top?

[NomadDemon]

i just want to configure alsa, not changing kernel.. kernel updates are once per month any of you try xonar on other distros?

[Wyatt]

If you're trying to do serious audio work in Linux, you use JACK and things that speak JACK. That's really all there is to it. And if necessary, you use the rt-sources. What's complicated about this?

[Thatguy]

no, i dont use my PC for recording. dont need 1ms latency on my PC just want to have full synchro youtube and sound, rhythmbox and sound, its already next song, and still lastone plays[same other players, a little move like 0,5sec pure alsa doesnt have this latency problem, only adding PA have

thats likely do to the way the kernel is optimized for certain workloads. I remember similar situations in my attempts to get linux to be a workable solution for proaudio. I never succeeded. Some claim to have but I don't think they know any better.

[NomadDemon]

no, i dont use my PC for recording. dont need 1ms latency on my PC just want to have full synchro youtube and sound, rhythmbox and sound, its already next song, and still lastone plays[same other players, a little move like 0,5sec pure alsa doesnt have this latency problem, only adding PA have

[Thatguy]

generaly.. it workd.. alsa + PA and it work flawless.. only i want to have less latency.

the problem is.. iam musician.. i need good audio. for sound creation, listening samples of mixed records from my studio etc

in studio i use Maudio delta1010, it doesnt work with PA, use only jack in studio

in my home computer i have xonar DX, want to use it in 100%

is there any possibility to ask ALSA dev team to improve this stuff?

Part of the latency is the design of the kernel itself.

you need a aggresive premptive kernel for low latency message passing, for this linux isnt so good without alot of kernel tunning. its not even possiable IMHO.

seriously, I tried linux audio for years I finally broke down and spent $450 on presonus studio one and a $150 for a copy of windows xp pro. My problems have since been solved.

[NomadDemon]

generaly.. it workd.. alsa + PA and it work flawless.. only i want to have less latency.

the problem is.. iam musician.. i need good audio. for sound creation, listening samples of mixed records from my studio etc

in studio i use Maudio delta1010, it doesnt work with PA, use only jack in studio

in my home computer i have xonar DX, want to use it in 100%

is there any possibility to ask ALSA dev team to improve this stuff?