is netbook because internal sound can't go lower (jack won't even start at 64/2).
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I think the MOD is in many ways the wave of the future. I see off-loading more of the sound processing to the audio interface as the general computer interfaces become more throughput oriented and less lowlatency capable.
Having an audio interface that is kind of a secialty computer, but with OS access for the user just makes sense. Many AIs already have quite a lot of processing inside, but are not open. The cost is not that high for this added processing (end cost of $50?) and I would think having the ability to add processing power with cards the size of the mini/micro PCIe wireless cards should not be difficult. If Jack is run with very low latency, then using a netjack like interface between cores could easily allow the use of 16 or more cores/threads and still have an acceptable latency. What if a second (open) video card was used for audio processing?