On Jul 4, 2009 7:54pm, Paul DeShaw <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
Have either of you been able to use JACK with the built-in sound on your 1st gen MacBooks?
Sometimes I'd just like to do a little editing or whatnot away from home. I don't have a portable interface; it's built into a MIDI keyboard controller. Not something I want to lug around. But when I try using the built-in card, no matter how I tweak the settings in JACK, I get a ton of either xruns or hardware wakeup errors. Do you know a way to fix this? If not, can you recommend a portable interface that works well with the MacBook and Hardy?
Thanks,
Paul D.
I have used JACK running through ALSA before, but only a couple of times, and for very short periods of time. You are right, there are a ton of X-runs when I do this. It never bothered me, though, because I never do audio work without an interface. Personally, I use a Presonus Firepod (prior to having its name changed to FP10), which is running a signal to my studio monitors, or headphones depending on the situation. It works like a dream using the freebob driver (as well as the latest FFADO driver in Jaunty, under certain conditions, but NOT with the Macbook). It is what I would describe as a mid-level interface, so it's not cheap, about $300 - $400 depending on where you get it. But it has 8 balanced/unbalance inputs with pre-amps. Mine is screwed into a small rackmount, along with a hard drive, and this is a very portable set-up that I've used for live recording for quite some time now.
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