Re: [PD] hdsp & pd (again..)

aym3ric wrote:

My questions are quite simple:

• what is the best interface to use an hdsp with ? oss, alsa, jack ?

(when you just need to run pd and don't need to forward the audio elsewhere)

if you want multichannel output (and you most probably want it as you have spent your money on it), you will *have* to use alsa/jack.

why?

• there are no OSS drivers for the hdsp (there are drivers for the

normal "old" (and superior, in my opinion) hammerfall, but none forthe hdsp)

• so there are only ALSA-drivers; however pd's alsa support is bad as it

cannot do multichannel. so you cannot "just" use alsa

• pd's jack support is better than it's alsa support (although far from

perfect); at least it can do multichannel.

so your setup should be something like pd->jack->alsa->hdsp

(yesterday this gave me about 13ms latency which is quite ok)

i am running 2.6-kernels and i don't think that there are any reasons not to use it.

mfg.a.sdr IOhannes