[LAD] Feature requests: add JackSession support

[Devin Anderson]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> i feel that if you spend too long reasoning about this, you will
> conclude, as I have, that JACK was actually a mistake (at least in
> terms of the basic framework in which to glue together different
> things processing data streams). the absence of a plugin API that was
> likely to be adopted by all/most developers back in 2000 is what gave
> rise to this situation. there's a limit to how far you can push the
> usability of a "DAW" built out of N independent processes, each one
> running code developed by different developers with no awareness of
> the others. the limit is, thankfully, not too primitive, but its also
> not far enough out to be able to pretend that JACK + N>1 clients is
> actually functionally equivalent to a single host + plugins, at least
> not in terms of state management.

I'm curious about what you might have done differently if you knew
then what you know now.

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