perhaps asio itself isnt supported but the jack for windows site makes claims that any program that uses asio is able to input into jack. i will check into this when i get home to see if it indeed connects and will test the latency.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 14:33, Kassen <[email protected]> wrote: >> and what about jack? is it a real alternative for windows audio users? or >> should we use another audio interface? >> > My knowledge is only up to XP, but the issue as I experienced is that > ASIO was the only low-latency way of interfacing that was supported by > the kind of program we can anticipate will be used here (Ableton, > Renoise, Traktor/Final Scratch, etc). ASIO has decent latency, but it > assumes a single program will connect to a single soundcard (and claim > that whole card). I don't think we could even get the (or a) audio in > while the rest of the card is used by some DAW or similar. People then > use all their plugins and things as clients from the DAW. > > Rewire as a protocol is no option, I think. I seem to remember they > have a library to use the protocol but refuse FOSS clients. On top of > that not everything supports Rewire. > > Maybe Jack could work, it's out on Windows and suits our needs, but to > be honest I never heard of anyone actually using it, which makes me a > bit doubtfull. > > If that doesn't work we could considder having a VST plugin that > passes on all input and also sends it FLuxus. That would work but it's > very hacky, more work and probably still leaves a lot of people out; > I'm not sure the current crop of virtual DJ programs support > insterting VST plugins on the main mix. Sadly that's the only option > I'm sure would work in practice (well, theory...) as that's also the > one I like least. > > > Yours, > Kas.
