On Apr 21, 12:57*pm, Doctor Smith <iaintgotnostinkinem...@ols.net>
wrote:

[ blah blah blah blah ]

the list of what you don't seem to know or understand seems long. we
could start with:

* the differing goals of systems like ALSA (hardware abstraction)
and PulseAudio
(network audio, device switching, global per-application
control, and more)
* just as you wouldn't run a significant webserver on a generic
install, you don't
do prosumer let along pro music recording/playback on a
generic install
* the presence of several different sound systems on Windows that
are capable
of causing similar issues for users there (MME, WDM, ASIO and
more)
* the fact that no application is expected to ever "support
PulseAudio"

i could go on, but what's the point. its COLA.

In article
<ee919e10-1a87-47cc-b46f-9f9162a5fc4b@t10g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>,
dawhead <google@equalarea.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> * just as you wouldn't run a significant webserver on a generic
> install, you don't
> do prosumer let along pro music recording/playback on a
> generic install[/color]

Apple doesn't need separate sound systems for consumer, prosumer, and
pro. Why does Linux?


--
--Tim Smith

On Apr 21, 7:51*pm, Tim Smith <reply_in_gr...@mouse-potato.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Apple doesn't need separate sound systems for consumer, prosumer, and
> pro. *Why does Linux?[/color]

Why not ask Microsoft? After all, they do everything so well, I guess
we decided to copy them.

Or did you actually want a serious reply to that? on COLA?

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:51:32 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
[color=blue]
> In article
> <ee919e10-1a87-47cc-b46f-9f9162a5fc4b@t10g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>,
> dawhead <google@equalarea.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> * just as you wouldn't run a significant webserver on a generic
>> install, you don't
>> do prosumer let along pro music recording/playback on a
>> generic install[/color]
>
> Apple doesn't need separate sound systems for consumer, prosumer, and
> pro. Why does Linux?[/color]

Neither does Windows, really.

Click ASIO or WDM in the application.
That's it.
Most people find ASIO allows for lower latencies.

Linux is a total mess when it comes to sound.