[LAU] open hw soundcard (was Re: status usb2 for sound)

fons at kokkinizita.net fons at kokkinizita.net
Sat Nov 14 07:39:48 EST 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:37:55PM -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:

> I suggested it for control/status data, i.e. to configure
> the sound card, choose sample rates and channel configurations,
> etc. It's used by some Linux softsynths to communicate with
> their GUIs.
> 
> I would not suggest OSC for shuffling ADC data back and forth.
> For that, either NetJack or some lightweight homegrown
> int/longint-based protocol would be better.

OSC is int-based, all items are 32-bit aligned. And you
can include blocks of binary data without any significant
overhead. They take one char in the format string and one
int preceding them for the lenght.

Ciao,

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FA

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