Re: [LAU] Anyone interested in JACKifying Beatrix?

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ken Restivo wrote: Hi, I do have an interest in making Beatrix more suited for plug-in environments, but it is a long road. The main issues that concern an adaptation are (in no particular order): * The system sample rate is more or less fixed at 22.05 KHz. * The system buffer size is set at compile-time. * Dynamic memory is considered not to be a problem and is not released when free (this is not a leak - it just remains allocated but unused). * There is no support for shutdown/unloading. * The reverb FX hogs the cpu due to denormal numbers. * The rotary speaker FX has a flaw for which two fixes exist: either a huge lookup table or additional cpu cycles. Which is most appropriate? * There is no real user interface and for portability there is no UI service interface. Further, to take full advantage of plug-in environments the overdrive, reverb and rotary effects should probably be broken out of the main chain. This creates a conflict with the current configuration mechanism which of course assumes that they are integrated. This is probably a secondary issue, since as independent FX units they need their own and independent control surfaces anyway. -fk Fredrik Kilander | email: fk(a)dsv.su.se Dpt. of Computer and Systems Sciences | gsm: +46 (0)70 371 31 53 Forum 100 | land: +46 (0)8 16 16 02 S-164 40 KISTA | www: http://www.dsv.su.se/~fk SWEDEN | skype: fredrik.kilander