[linux-audio-dev] Audio synchronization, MIDI API

[Dave Robillard]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:53, Ralf Beck wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 17. August 2004 01:47 schrieb Lee Revell:
> > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 19:24, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, John Check wrote:
> > > > That was exactly what I was thinking when the penny dropped for me.
> > > > Originally I was thinking of offload the softsynths, but FX are
> > > > expensive too. The ideal is to make a total system, but make it
> > > > modular, and give it the ability to connect with existing commercial
> > > > systems via a VST counterpart to the plugin.
> > > > We need to take over incrementally and this is a killer strategy to get
> > > > a toehold.
> 
> In the comercial windows world, FX-Teleport and VST System Link are doing
> exactly this.
> 
> I think jack over ethernet could be as easy as writing a pseudo alsa driver
> that emulates a soundcard but sends/receives UDP packets over ethernet.

I'm not that familiar with jack internals, but writing a new jack driver
(like the firewire one, and oss one) would be a much, much better idea
than writing some alsa-over-network monstrosity for too many reasons to
list.

-DR-