[linux-audio-user] Need for more than stereo

[Sampo Savolainen]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 02:06 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:06AM +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:56 +0100, leslie.polzer at gmx.net wrote:
> > > Hello audio users,
> > > 
> > >   I'm working on JACK Rack 2 and would like to know how many of you are
> > > using more than two channels and how important you consider more than
> > > two.
> > 
> > I don't work with ambisonics, but some people might want to use the
> > ambisonics plugs in jack rack. They deal with 4 streams. With
> > ambisonics, you would probably want to have a different number of inputs
> > and outputs.
> 
> That's indeed the case, and it's difficult to say which combinations
> would be tyical or improbable. There should be no artificial limits.
>  
> > I have an idea to make better use of these plugins: what if in cases
> > where there are more than 2 streams, the ports would be represented in
> > the gui, and the connection model between those ports and the
> > inputs/outputs would be visualized and maybe even configurable.
> 
> You can do this with AMS of course...

I agree that AMS/om etc. are better for freely routed processing, and
doing free routing is almost against the purpose of jack-rack which is
supposed to be a very easy, fast to use, serial plugin processor.

But, my idea is that the even if the connections cannot be routed
freely, the GUI would *show* how the outputs *are* routed. Knowing what
actually happens makes the tool more usable.

-- 
Sampo Savolainen <v2 at iki.fi>