12 Dec
2002
12 Dec
'02
3:09 p.m.
On Thursday 12 December 2002 15.01, Oliver wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently looking at JACK (http://jackit.sourceforge.net/) for
a small project I'd like to work on some time soon. It sounds like
a promising concept. It's interesting for me because I don't have
to write my own audio loop. My questions are:
-Is it in a state where I can actually use it? Or are there so many
things still to be done so you wouldn't advise me to build
something on top of it?
AFAIK, it's been usable for a good while now, and a whole bunch of
applications support it.
Maybe it has to be extended later on (tunnelling of events and
similar protocols), but I don't think there will be any significant
changes in the API or semantics for existing features.
-Is there any competing "product" at the
moment? What are the
chances that JACK will be the standard in the future? (Try to
remain as objective as you can, please.)
Well, that would be ReWire - but that's rather irreleant, for two
reasons:
1. ReWire is not Free, nor available for Linux.
2. ReWire only supports loading "applications" as
shared libraries - which is *exactly* what we
want to avoid under Linux, because of technical
issues, mostly with GUI toolkits.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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