Re: [linux-audio-dev] soft synth as plugin

Hi, i came across your question while browsing the web for information on the alsa9 pcm plugin architecture.. My thought on this would be: Just make your soft synth a normal application but be sure to make it work with the alsa pcm - plugin layer of alsa. Then people can use the pcm plugin - layer to mix and route the signal. The midi stuff in alsa isn't really hard (just finding docu is :). Anyways, a good option to add would be jack support. but again the alsa-pcm-plugin layer has a jack-plugin that enables every alsa app to talk to a jack server. I don't know about the details in latency and timing, but on todays systems, the alsa layer shouldn't hit performance that bad. Anyways, i think it is crucial, that the synth works with the pcm layer so people without hardware mixing capabilities can run multiple instances of the synth(s) without the hassle of setting jack up.. Florian Schmidt -- mista.tapas(a)gmx.net sound clips - http://www.arted.biz/mista.tapas