On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb@ponderworthy.com> wrote:

What is happening right now, is I have seven synth+filter chains, all run through the single JACK server, all feeding eventually into the one sound card.

if the synths are all independent clients and they do not feed other, then they will automatically be parallelized by JACK2.

if they are not, then there is a bug that should be fixed, rather than finding complex workarounds.

I have more than ample CPU to run them all, but as you and others have explained, one JACK server is reaching its limits to handle them all because of the limits of the synchronous nature of everything. So what I intend to do, is to run all of the chains independently, asynchronously, on their own JACK servers, and then combine them all into a separate final which will connect to the sound card. T

this isn't going to work the way you want it to.