Hi, i have this silly idea of implementing a very simple jack client. It would do nothing else, but offer a number of writable and readable ports [lets assume 2 of each for now]. Now, in the background, this jack-client opens a number of UDP sockets [me is not a network expert, so bear with me here :)]. 2 UDP ports on which it listens to incoming data, which it then feeds into the readable ports. Any data that comes in on its writable ports will be made available as simple. It opens 2 UDP sockets, specifies a target adress and sends out the audio data. The mechanism is basically completely connection-less. packets that belong to the same stream just come from the same ip-adress, maybe carrying an index number to denote the port number. This way it would be vey easy to stream data from one jack graph to another on a different computer. Latencies will not be considered at all. These connections must be considered to be async. So a send to another computer, there feeding into an effect and then sending back will not be really a "realtime" thing [hmm, well, depends on the network speed and how big then network buffers are, etc.. i assume both on a private local lan here] Also, there probably must be some basic/minimal network protocol be implemented. At least a sequential numbering or timestamp, so the receiver can maintain a buffer and sort packets that come in out of order.. Again i'm no expert on this. But it sounds failry simple. What do you think? This could of course be done arbitrarily complex [with timing stuff, connection handling, authentification, etc], but i look for something dead simple. Flo -- music: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/florianschmidt.htm