JACK Audio Connection Kit

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JACK Audio Connection Kit

JACK Audio Connection Kit

Stable release	0.109.2 (30 January 2008)
OS:	[[OS::Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X]]
Genre:	Sound server
License:	GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License
Website:	http://jackaudio.org/

The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a sound server daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications, for both audio and MIDI data. It is created by Paul Davis and others. The server is licensed under the GNU GPL, while the library is licensed under the GNU LGPL.

JACK can use ALSA, PortAudio, CoreAudio, FreeBoB, FFADO and (still experimental) OSS as its back-end. As of 2008 it runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. There is also a version 2 in the works, JACKDMP, which supports Windows.

1 Applications
2 Libraries
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Applications

Some software that works with JACK:

Aqualung – a GTK based music player
Ardour – a free digital audio workstation program for Linux and OS X.
Baudline – a signal analysis tool
CheeseTracker – an Impulse Tracker clone
ChucK – a real-time audio programming language
Freqtweak – a digital EQ
Hydrogen – an advanced drum machine
LMMS – a free music sequencer and software synthesis program for Linux, OS X and Windows.
MusE – a Qt-based MIDI/audio sequencer
Music Player Daemon – what the name says. A daemon that runs in the background and plays music.
Pure data – a graphical programming language for multimedia
qjackctl – a Qt based tool to control JACK
Rosegarden – a free digital audio workstation program for Linux
SuperCollider – a real-time audio programming language
XMMS – a free music player for X11
XMMS2 – client/server based redesign of XMMS
ZynAddSubFX – an opensource software synthesizer
MOC – A ncurses based music player

As of 2007, there are many applications with JACK support; every well known video player supports JACK as audio output, and nearly every audio playing application for Linux supports JACK output.

[edit] Libraries

Allegro - a game programming library
bio2jack - a library that allows for simple porting of blocked I/O (bio) OSS/ALSA audio applications to JACK
libjackasyn - a library that converts programs written for the OSS system into JACK-aware applications