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| Latest release | 0.103.00 / 18 March 2007 |
| OS | Linux, Mac OS X |
| Genre | Sound server |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://jackaudio.org/ |
The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a sound server or daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications. It is created by Paul Davis and others and licensed under the GNU GPL. JACK can use ALSA, PortAudio, CoreAudio, FreeBOB and (still experimental) OSS as its back-end. As of 2003 it runs on Linux and Mac OS X. There is also a version 2 in the works, JACKDMP, which supports Windows. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, JACK is free software.
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Applications
Some software that works with JACK:
- Aqualung - a GTK based music player
- qjackctl - a Qt based tool to control JACK
- Ardour - a free digital audio workstation program for Linux
- Baudline - a signal analysis tool
- SuperCollider - a real-time audio programming language
- ChucK - real-time audio programming language
- CheeseTracker - an Impulse Tracker clone
- Rosegarden - a free digital audio workstation program for Linux
- XMMS - a free music player for X11
- Freqtweak - a digital EQ
- MusE - a Qt-based MIDI/audio sequencer
- Pure data - a graphical programming language for multimedia
- ZynAddSubFX - an opensource software synthesizer
- Hydrogen - an advanced drum machine
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.
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
See also
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