JACK Audio Connection Kit

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The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a soundserver or daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications. It is created by Paul Davis and others and licensed under the GNU GPL. JACK is free audio software. It can use ALSA, PortAudio and (still experimental) OSS as its back-end. As of 2003 it runs on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.

Audio flow chart for GNU/Linux systems:

 application 1
 application 2   <->  JACK  <-> ALSA  <-> Sound card
 application ...

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Applications

Some software that works with JACK:

Libraries

  • Allegro, a game programming library.
  • bio2jack, a library that allows for simple porting of blocked io OSS/ALSA audio applications to Jack.
  • libjackasyn is a library that converts programs written for the OSS system into JACK-aware applications.

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