While jack ports are visible to other JACK applications, ALSA 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
While jack ports are visible to other JACK applications, ALSA 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