[LAD] Feature requests: add JackSession support

[rosea grammostola]

2011/7/4 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de>

> On 07/04/2011 03:23 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> 2011/7/3 Dave Phillips<dlphillips at woh.rr.com**>:
>>
>>> Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>>>
>>>  ... none of the audio stuff i routinely do everyday would be possible
>>>> without jack.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Amen to that.
>>>
>>
>> I disagree with both of you. I think what you really mean is "none of
>> this would be possible without some system for interconnecting
>> processing elements together in flexible, creative,possibly
>> unanticipated ways that also leaves the developers of those elements
>> free to do things in their own way".
>>
>> that much i'd agree with. but this is not a description that requires
>> that the solution be at the process level.
>>
>
> well, like ladspa, jack has its time and place, and it has triggered an
> amazing surge of activity. to me, it's the best infrastructure in the
> market.
> when it was conceived, there was no way to do what it does except at the
> process level. and now that we know how to combine multiple gui toolkits in
> a single process, it still looks very good.
>
> and as long as jack keeps scaling over multiple cpu cores, we have cycles
> in abundance - so where's the harm in some inter-process communication
> overhead?
>
> rather than lumping all audio into a single process, i'd say jack should
> even strengthen the boundaries between processes, such that it doesn't die
> as easily when a node in the graph goes bad, to make it even better suited
> for live use than it already is.
>


With JackSession quite some drawbacks of JACK will be countered. It is / was
very user unfriendly to all the plumbing yourself again and again.

Anyway, we're getting a bit offtopic here. You might want to start a new
thread about the past and future of JACK and a plugin API (LV2)

Regards,
\r
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