[LAU] JACK Freewheel mode thoughts

[Robin Gareus]

On 11/11/2016 07:55 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:

>>> On the practical side, what does freewheel gain?  
>>
>> e.g. Export a 90 min soundtrack (or podcast or concert,..) in just under
>> 5 minutes (or thereabouts;  ~ 1.0 / DSP-load faster, export usually also
>> happens with larger buffers with decreases DSP load)
>>
>> ciao,
>> robin
> 
> Interesting.
> Presumably that means things like live mixing are out.

Yes, in case of soundtacks you do all the mixing beforehand anyway.

> Change a fader and
> you've no idea where it will actually appear in the final audio :(
> 

Since freewheeling decouples jack from the hardware, the fader's signal
goes nowhere.

In Ardour's case you can't touch any GUI control while exporting, but
yes, if you could then sure. Still that's besides the point, just go and
smoke a cigarette while things are exporting.

I had this a couple of times. A Very long session, then next iteration
of sound-design a small change somewhere around 01:12:00:00 is needed ..
and I don't want to wait for 90+ min only to bounce the whole thing
again. That'd be half a a pack of cigarettes :)

2c,
robin