JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows (and can be ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK also has support for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast & reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs.
Future JACK2 will be based on C++ jackdmp code base. Jack 1.9.2 is the "renaming" of jackdmp and the result of a lot of developments started after Linux Audio Conference 2008. Jack 1.9.2 is the first version of the JACK2 serie to support Solaris. It is currently distributed as a source package, to be compiled and installed on the target machine. It has been tested on recent OpenSolaris 2008.11 and Solaris 10 systems. The audio "backend" is using the OSS 4 API. JACK home page: http://jackaudio.org/ and http://trac.jackaudio.org/ Web page for JACK2 : http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html Source code only, mainly for Linux and Solaris users: http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jack-1.9.2.tar.bz2 Solaris version has been funded by the french radio RTL, in the process of developing their future digital radio. Stephane Letz
