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

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:36:10 -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > oh, and a small correction. VST System Link has basically nothing to
> > do with networked audio. [...] it does *not* distribute audio
> > across the network at all.
> 
> If I understood it correctly, yes it does, but their concept of a
> "network" is somewhat weird: it allows you to send data from one
> machine to the other for remote processing, but it uses the
> digital audio ports of the soundcards of the machines to pass
> the audio data around (together with other data). Therefore, it
> only works with audio cards with digital I/O and word clock.

It doesnt neccesarily require word clock, it depends if the card can sync
to its digital i/o ports or not.

Th reason they do this ofcourse is so they can bypass the whole
synchronisation nightmare and avoid resampling everything.

- Steve