[LAD] Feature requests: add JackSession support

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Sun Jul 3 17:32:09 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de> wrote:
> SaveAndQuit (without Quit only) is not so bad, as it appears
> initially. Actually I seem to like the idea of this simplification.
> Although one has to get used to it.
>
> What I'm really missing is SaveAndClose (without application Quit !).
> Restarting all applications for changing a session doesn't appear
> practical.

i feel that if you spend too long reasoning about this, you will
conclude, as I have, that JACK was actually a mistake (at least in
terms of the basic framework in which to glue together different
things processing data streams). the absence of a plugin API that was
likely to be adopted by all/most developers back in 2000 is what gave
rise to this situation. there's a limit to how far you can push the
usability of a "DAW" built out of N independent processes, each one
running code developed by different developers with no awareness of
the others. the limit is, thankfully, not too primitive, but its also
not far enough out to be able to pretend that JACK + N>1 clients is
actually functionally equivalent to a single host + plugins, at least
not in terms of state management.

--p



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