latency. On the other hand it requires external hardware, and the monitoring
settings are less flexible and not saved with the session.</p>
-<h3 class="clear">JACK-Based Hardware Monitoring</h3>
+<h3 class="clear">Audio driver Hardware Monitoring</h3>
<figure class="right">
<img src="/images/jack-monitoring.png" alt="Hardware Monitoring">
<p>Some sound cards have the ability
to mix signals from their inputs to their outputs with very low or even zero
latency, a feature called <dfn>hardware monitoring</dfn>.
- Furthermore, on some cards this function can be controlled by JACK. This is a nice arrangement,
+ Furthermore, on some cards this function can be controlled by Ardour. This is a nice arrangement,
if the sound card supports it, as it combines the convenience of having the
monitoring controlled by Ardour with the low latency operation of doing it
externally.
outputs, governed by various controls. This approach will almost always have
more routing flexibility than JACK-based monitoring. The disadvantage is
that there will be some latency between the input and the output, which
- depends for the most part on the JACK buffer size that is being used.
+ depends for the most part on the buffer size that is being used.
</p>