[linux-audio-dev] Announcing initial release of FreqTweak

[Joshua Haberman]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:49:12 -0400 (EDT)
"Jesse Chappell" <jesse at essej.net> wrote:
> > My question is this:  how modular is the audio code (i.e. is it
> > possible to support different audio targets at the makefile level)?  It  is,
> > as you likely know, fairly easy to port between various
> > callback-based libraries, and I'd be interested in taking a crack at making a
> > CoreAudio port for OS X.  (Since there is a wxWindows port for  OS X, the
> > "hard part" is not so hard.  :-)
>
> It should be pretty easy... I planned to support alternate I/O subsytems, it
> should just be a matter of subclassing FTioSupport ( as FTjackSupport is) and
> implementing it.   Hah!  Wouldn't we be so lucky :)

An even better solution for the long-term would be to use PortAudio
(www.portaudio.com), which will give you Windows, ALSA, JACK, OSS, CoreAudio,
ASIO, and more.  Basically it would be like your current strategy, except all
the subclasses have already been written and tested for you!  :-)

The current stable release doesn't support JACK or ALSA, but the development
branch does (I can speak for these since I wrote them :-).  So I wouldn't
suggest moving to PortAudio right now since JACK support is a priority for you,
but you may want to consider it for the long-term.

Josh

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