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

[John Check]

On Tuesday 17 August 2004 04:00 pm, Dave Robillard wrote:
> 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.
>

Clarifying. I thought it was cool you like the concept

> 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.
>

Err.. yeah I'd have to agree. 

> -DR-