Re: [Jack-Devel] How does --hwmon work?

On Fri, 05 May 2017 19:14:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: That's absurd, since the different sound cards provide completely different routing features. If you mix a project with a DAW, then the software mixer should be completely separated from the hardware mixer. If you want to get all in one, consider to just use the I/Os of an audio interface and to buy the right tool for that task, a separated mixing console [1]. Yes, hardware monitoring done with an external mixing console [1] very often is done by adding effects to the monitor signal, so some proprietary audio interface software provides this for the audio interface's hardware monitoring, too. The audio interface's hardware monitoring is done at driver level, while the software could be split to the driver and mixer software, the access to the hardware monitoring still is part of the driver. Jack plugins? Driver level? Jack is a sound server using a backend such as ALSA. Keep in mind that it's common practise to use real mixing consoles [1] and/or to use the audio interface's hardware mixer in addition to the DAW's mixer. Most people do not have the same needs as you have got [2]. I'm using hdspmixer for my RME audio interface. My Focusrite isn't supported, so I'm using it class compliant, without the option to have access to the hardware monitoring. Actually a driver for other Focusrite interfaces from the same series exists and I much likely only need to add an ID to the driver's source code and build it, to get access to the hardware monitoring, but I simply don't need it. A lot of people don't need hardware monitoring provided by the audio interface. Those who need it, usually like to use the separated audio interface's hardware mixer. I never heard from anybody who shares the same need as yours. There are for sure people who share your wish, but you will not find that many who do so, that seemingly is the reason that nobody wrote the code you wish to have. Regards, Ralf [1] not necessarily an analog mixing console, it just means that it is a mixing console and not just a remote control. However, even a separated mixing console, analog as well as digital, could send and receive data from a DAW or use it's own automation sequencer synced to the DAW. OTOH a cheap mixing console already could be used to separate the real mix, probably just done by a software mixer and the monitor mix, done by the cheap mixing console. So you could put the remote control for the DAW's mixer and the mixing console to each other. If you want to do the complete mix with a mixing console, you have to get one in a different price segment, to get professional sound quality, but then you really get all in one. [2] On Thu, 4 May 2017 17:35:24 -0500, Chris Caudle wrote: