30 Jan
2016
30 Jan
'16
1:19 p.m.
On 01/30/2016 07:04 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Benjamin Schmaus
<benjamin.schmaus(a)gmail.com <mailto:benjamin.schmaus@gmail.com>> wrote:
+ jack-devel
pls see question for Paul below.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:48 AM Benjamin Schmaus
<benjamin.schmaus(a)gmail.com <mailto:benjamin.schmaus@gmail.com>> wrote:
as the years have gone on, although I am still delighted by
the technical quality and
the conception of JACK, I no longer think that it is a
particularly good idea for most users. There
are times when it is useful
Could you elaborate on this? Curious to know more.
JACK was developed in part because of the absence of a viable plugin API
on Linux. It allowed people to "glue together" whole applications rather
than load plugins into a host. This is pretty cool, no question. But the
session management aspects of it are not that cool, and despite both the
JACK session API and the Non session manager and other things that
falktx (Filipe) have done, the situation for users really hasn't ever
gotten to the point where reloading a "JACK session" comprised of many
individual applications is as easy as it ought to be.
Just a very quick comment on this:
JACK makes Linux (and OS X) the best platform for highly innovative
immersive audio stuff and massive multichannel systems, by a huge
margin. It also makes it great for prototyping.
It's true that the necessity of JACK for the "simple project studio" has
diminished somewhat, but at the same time, linux audio has outgrown this
niche.
I routinely use jack-based systems for 3d audio rendering that have more
than 1k jack ports in use. True, it's somewhat messy, but the
corresponding amp racks, MADI and Dante links and shitloads of
loudspeakers are not exactly turn-key either.
I welcome the fact that a beginning ardour user does not have to master
jack anymore, in the same way that my sound engineering apprentice does
not have to master the rear side of the ampracks in order to get some
intermission music into the theatre. But for me anything that makes
linux audio interesting requires jack.
That said, your motives in stepping down are perfectly understandable.
But I don't agree with your assessment of JACK's importance.
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