[LAU] The Box of No Return: a MultiJACK-based synthesizer

Running beautifully: https://ponderworthy.github.io/the-box-of-no-return/ Four JACK servers in toto, just one connected to hardware. Patches all on the soft servers, most FX on soft, reverb only on hard; I only need one reverb setting for all, and reverb does eat a lot of JACK resources. Lots and lots of CPU left over for more patches and patch components. If I run out of JACK DSP on my third soft server I'll just add another, although I plan to run two small patches on the third, should not be a problem. Apart from finally uncracking my unused CPU and RAM capacity, there was an unexpected benefit: when a patch overloads, the whole device does not go down -- and the single JACK server which does have the overload, recovers silently, after about a quarter second, and zita-njbridge reconnects automatically, and everything is back. No static, no major badness, no nothing. My gratitude again to Fons !!! And everyone else involved of course. My first patch is quite big (three twin-patch Yoshimis), and I'm running the whole at twice the sampling rate (96kHz instead of 48), and the rare overloads appear to have been caused by a bit of duplicate JACK wiring -- but it sure is nice to know that the whole synth will not go down, or send horror through the PA, if just one patch overloads. -- Jonathan E. Brickman jeb(a)ponderworthy.com (785)233-9977 Hear us at http://ponderworthy.comcom -- CDs and MP3 now available! Music of compassion; fire, and life!!!