f13 pulse and passthrough

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:16:37PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had a look and the only thing I can find on this is an unresolved
> bug report. Which is odd, because prior to pulse every sound system I
> ever used let you play the sound in directly to sound out. Anyway the
> situation is this: I'd like to be able to play a guitar through my
> sound card and be able to listen to backing tracks and other things at
> the same time. The suggested "pacmd load-module module-loopback" isn't
> viable as it has latency. JackD works fine for guitar (and I can use
> things like rakarrack or guitarix which are good fun), but using JACK
> seems to mean I can't use other sound sources (presumably it connects
> to ALSA). So, what's the answer?

In PulseAudio, each sink has an associated "monitor" source that you
can use to monitor what's going out of that sink (such as listening to
a mixdown).

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