At 05:53 AM 14/01/2004, Nathaniel Virgo wrote:
I think another great application for such a thing
would be a JACK patch
bay. It would be so much easier to use something like this to connect
apps (and internal ardour connections) than it is at the moment. I always
wanted to write such a thing myself but never really had the time. In
many ways a JACK patch bay would be one of the most demanding applications
for this because it has to handle both many-to-one and one-to-many
connections and JACK graphs can be very complicated, so I would suggest
bearing it in mind while designing it, on the grounds that if it can
handle that it will be able to handle many other things as well. I also
think that having the option of embedding synth GUIs into the graph is
very important.
There already is. Check out
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net.
Yes, it can do everything. But when having many many clients
with lots of connections, it gets quite complicated. It would
be nicer with a more loose patchbay type of pd/jmax/alsamodularsynth/etc.
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