to the sound card's hardware. Many professional and semi-professional audio applications utilize the ASIO driver, allowing users to work with audio in real time. Pro Tools HD offers a low-latency system similar to ASIO. Pro Tools 10 and 11 are also compatible with ASIO interface drivers.

The Linux real-time kernel is a modified kernel that alters the standard timer frequency the Linux kernel uses and gives all processes or threads the ability to have real-time priority. This means that a time-critical process like an audio stream can