10 Jan
2018
10 Jan
'18
8:44 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:54:43PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
It is quite common (unfortunately in my view these
days) to
implement things as JACK clients (i.e. standalone programs) on Linux,
rather than as plugins (though this changing).
And I'm probably one of the major culprits.
As far as I'm concerned, that's not going to change. For me a
Jack app is just a 'system plugin'. There is simply no plugin
host that offers the same features and flexibility by far - not
even Ardour.
Think about what a plugin host is doing. It just offers
alternative interfaces to sound, MIDI, networking, GUIs,
etc. etc. It just copies services that are already provided
by the system. As a way to 'hide' the system and make things
cross-platform that makes sense. In any other way it doesn't.
Ciao,
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