JACK
The JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) is a low-latency audio
server
daemon that provides low latency connection to applications. 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 (i.e. as normal
applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (i.e. as a
"plugin").
JACK is a system for sending audio between applications as
well as
allowing them to all share an audio interface. Each application is run
in exact sample sync with each other, and the entire system is
designed to run at very low latencies (as low as your hardware will
allow). There is NO extra latency caused
by using JACK for audio
input and output.
QjackCtl,
a separate application, provides a simple Qt application to control the
JACK sound server daemon, specific for the Linux Audio Desktop
infrastructure.
Features include:
- Provides a high level abstraction for programmers that
removes the
audio interface hardware from the picture and allows them to
concentrate on the core functionality of their software
- Allows applications to send and receive audio data to/from
each other as well as the audio interface
- Applications that work with JACK include:
- Audacity
- a digital audio editor
- Aqualung - music player
- Ardour
- a free digital audio workstation program for Linux
- Audacious
- a fork of beep-media-player
- Baudline - a signal analysis tool
- SuperCollider - a real-time audio programming language
- ChucK - a real-time audio programming language
- CheeseTracker - an Impulse Tracker clone
- SooperLooper
- a live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording,
overdubbing, multiplying, reversing and more.
- XMMS - a free music player for X11
- XMMS2 - client/server based redesign of XMMS
- Freqtweak - a digital EQ
- MusE
- a Qt-based MIDI/audio sequencer
- Rosegarden
- a sophisticated MIDI (and audio) sequencer and notation editor
- Mixxx
- a digital DJ system, for wave, ogg and mp3 files
- Pure data - a graphical programming language for
multimedia
- Seq24
- a loop based MIDI sequencer
- Bristol
- an emulation package
for a number of different 'classic' synthesisers including additive and
subtractive and a few organs
- ZynAddSubFX - an opensource software synthesizer
- terminatorX
- a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch".
- Hydrogen
- an advanced drum machine
- JAMin
- state-of-the-art realtime mastering processor
- LiVES
- a Video Editing System
- VLC
- a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video
formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs,
VCDs, and various streaming protocols
- MPlayer
- a movie player
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