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On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:36 AM, S C Rigler  wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:00 AM, James Harkins  wrote:

>

>> FWIW, I tried alsa_out once upon a time, to handle a 4-channel-out USB interface

>> that appears to Linux as two stereo devices. It was a complete disaster. After

>> booting Jack and launching alsa_out, it took between 5 and 10 minutes before the

>> devices would synchronize. Before that, constant glitching. Then, if I left the

>> devices silent for a time, they would go out of sync again after a few minutes.

>> More glitching.

>>

>> At that point, I started to feel that was no longer a viable solution to

>> explore. I (still) wouldn't trust alsa_out or _in for anything serious.

>>

>> YMMV.

>>

>> hjh

>>

>

> My primary audio interface is an Echo AudioFire 4 and I'll

> occasionally use alsa_in to route a (mono) M-Audio JamLab into

> Guitarix.  It works well enough for that and what the OP was asking

> sounded like a similar case.

Yes, exactly. Can you share the command like options you use to get it

working? I just tried "alsa_in -d alsa -d mydevice" and it gave me

awful recording (well, mostly just static).
thanks.
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