[linux-audio-dev] ANNOUNCE: Linux Audio Cluster

[Ralf Beck]

Features planned:

- Host distributing tracks/control (OSC?) info for processing on nodes
- Nodes can be Linux, WinXP, (probably OSX)
- up to 8 Nodes per 100MBit subnet 
- up to 32 Nodes per GBit subnet
- roundtrip latency (audioin/host/node/host/audioout) below 6 ms
  (provided plugs do not add additional latency)
- nodes work at up to 4x oversampling (which does add a bit of
  latency though)
- support of Vst/Vsti on XP nodes 
  (mainly used for DSP boards like UAD/Powercore), 
- support of Ladspa/Dssi (VST/VSti through wine) on Linux nodes
- (AU on OSX?)
- plugin GUIs are redirected to the host through a subnet distinct from
  the track/control net, so the ones of the XP(OSX) nodes can be
  made visible through VNC without disturbing the audio
 
Participants welcome. Discussion open.
 
Ralf