f13 pulse and passthrough

[Ian Malone]

On 12 October 2010 16:02, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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).
>

How do you actually listen to a monitor? The only way I've found so
far is to use the loopback device which has a ~ 1/3 second latency.

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