[LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH, pt. 3

[Stéphane Letz]

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> One way I'm investigating to more or less enforce this
> in an installation I'm designing is to have a second
> JACK instance that is not driven by a sound card but
> by a client of the 'master JACK' of which it becomes
> a subgraph. Then hide the 'master JACK' and all its
> clients. To the user it looks as if he's working with
> a normal installation, and talking to the sound card,
> while his 'system:' ports are in fact just another app.
> All it takes is a JACK backend that presents itself as
> a client to another JACK instance. Or a shared lib that
> allows any app to become a JACK backend. Or a version
> of JACK that has not one but several processing graphs
> and configurable links between them.
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> That's one way to do it, another one is to use a 'flat'
> system (only one JACK) and rely on a session management
> system that supports hierarchical control.


This is interesting: "hierarchical" jack if I get the idea correctly.  
I would be interested to understand better, if you take some more time  
to explain your design in more details and requirements it would  
establish to jack API.

Stephane