[LAD] minimal LV2

alex stone compose59 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 12:55:25 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:47 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:06:21PM +0000, alex stone wrote:
>
>> Fons, a question. In the framework you've described, would it feasible
>> or possible to run the host and plugins as a "backend" on a headless
>> rig, and run the gui on the main daw box, in an attempt to offload
>> some of the grunt work?
>
> In the normal case the host would be e.g. the DAW which I
> suppose is running on 'the main daw box', so the plugins
> will run there as well - they run inside the host process,
> this is not a 'jack rack' even if it looks like it.
>
> It would be possible to make a 'jack-rack' style host
> (i.e. and app that does nothing but being a plugin host),
> and very probably the 'reference host' will be something
> like that. But even on the same machine that would mean
> extra latency, and if you go over a digital audio link
> or the network even more.
>
> The whole point of 'plugins' in contrast to e.g. standalone
> Jack apps, is that they run *inside* the host.
>
> In the current design the 'rack' (the GUI application) has
> to be on the same machine as the host (the DSP part). But
> you can always forward the X11 connection and have it display
> where you want it.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> FA
>
> O tu, che porte, correndo si ?
> E guerra e morte !
>

Aah, riight. I misunderstood the structure of what you're doing.

Alex.

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