[kuschku]

Sadly, pulse is also still quite fragile and has a massive latency.

It’d be preferable if for Linux there was an audio server closer to what JACK is (although both JACK and JACK2 aren’t ideal either).

(That said, I mix hardware mixing and pulse for my purposes)

[m45t3r]

> has a massive latency.

The trade-off for latency in PA is lower power usage. I think most consume users are pretty happy that their sound system does not suck tons of energy just to offer sub-10ms of audio latency.

> JACK

AFAIK, PulseAudio and Jack 2 can work pretty seamlessly together thanks to a new dbus API (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Pul...).

[AstralStorm]

Mostly, but you will need a tuned kernel setup to have JACK working properly as in no random underruns.

[beedogs]

I gave up long ago and simply use audio cards that do hardware mixing. There's no need for anything other than ALSA if you do it that way.

[kuschku]

Unless you want to do filters or additional in/out channels, and more than the card supports.

In my case, I use 3 audio cards, an internal one for speakers, a Behringer Xenxy Q502 for headphones and microphone, and a backend streaming to my phone (in case I wanna walk around the house listening to music via headphones).

Mixing audio into streams for recording, live stream, headphones, etc isn’t easy even with hardware cards unless you spend a LOT of money.