inside a channel strip. Unlike Auxes, they will interrupt the signal flow,
feeding the signal from before the insert point to its <dfn>Insert
send(s)</dfn>, and connecting the remainder of the channel strip to the
- <dfn>Insert return(s)</dfn>, both of which are JACK ports which are
- visible to other JACK applications.<br>
- Inserts are the JACK equivalents of normalized switching jacks on an
- analog console.
+ <dfn>Insert return(s)</dfn>, both of which are either audio device or JACK ports.
+ While jack ports are visible to other JACK applications, ALAS ports are only
+ useful for patching in audio equipment external to the computer. If inserting
+ a software processor is required, a plugin would be the first choice. If a plugin
+ is not available then the jackd audio backend would have to be used. This is
+ not very common any more but there are some older jack clients that require
+ using jack.<br>
+ Inserts work the same as the inserts on analog consoles except they are not
+ normalled like most jacks on an analog console.
</p>
<p>
An insert allows to either use a special external DSP JACK
connections to the insert ports are made!
</p>
<p class="note">
- Inserts will incur an additional JACK period of latency, which can be
+ Inserts will incur an additional period of latency, which can be
measured and compensated for during mixing, but not during tracking!
</p>