[linux-audio-dev] Project: modular synth editor

[Simon Jenkins]

Steve Harris wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:41:30 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>  
>
>>>Oh dear... C needs to be called between A and B, but even if JACK and the
>>>two clients know that A->C->B is the correct order (which none of them do)
>>>it can't be achieved because A and B must be processed in a single callback.
>>>      
>>>
>>This will 'work', AFAICS, but with one cycle delay. This sets me thinking
>>about using JACK for insertion points in a mixer. This will always introduce
>>extra delays...
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, unless the front half and back half of the mixer are seperate jack
>clients, but I dont think thats a good idea :)
>
Even making the front half and back half of the mixer into separate 
clients can be
defeated by a sufficiently pathological user. (Eg by chaining all the 
input sections
together in the "wrong" order).

Simon Jenkins
(Bristol, UK)