23 Feb
2021
23 Feb
'21
2:23 p.m.
For what you describe below, netjack, rtpmidi are
probably the best open and
available right now options.
Well, for me this is the real challenge: if I can get things done with an
inexpensive network, why in the world should I buy Dante or similar stuff?
In other words I want to demonstrate that a carefully designed setup using
entirely or mostly FLOSS s/w can rival in many ways its commercial
counterparts at a fraction of the cost, and without bothering about licensing,
obsolescence and so on. If I had (that much) money, I’d rather give it to
admirable developers like those among you.
Ok, so you wish to use many (for some definition of
many) soft synths, one
or two per computer to be easy on cpu use and use network instead of audio
Exactly. Indeed I am already running this kind of network, and I can see more
and more ways to expand the current configuration as I go on with my tests.
That’s why I want to share my ideas with the community. ;-)
excelent utility). There is someone doing something
like this with four
computers using netjack but I forget his name and webpage. At least one of
his boxes is a windows box and the rest are Linux.
If you ever recall that someone, please let me know.
Yes that could be done... the same thought had crossed
my mind, though I
am not sure why two jacks per machine (or more) would be better than one.
Jack2 already uses all the cores/threads it can find if it can (routing
allows).
Nor do I. I think the explanation he gives on his page about performance is
not really convincing, nevertheless the idea he came up with reminds me a bit
of LADISH concept of “room”, but somewhat more flexible.
For those in advertizing out there... I have a word
for this kind of
music: "channel changer" If anyone reading this advertizes on a radio
station playing computer generated music with the teenager of the week
singing karaoke over top, maybe find a different radio station to
advertize on. This is about "popular" (pop) music but unfortunately that
is my first thought when I see the last paragraph. One hopes you are
creating something better.
With current marketing trends that are individualized where each view or
listen is counted, our choice of what we deign to watch or listen to can
push things one way or the other.
I agree with you in general terms, but we all have to face the fact that we
are living in an age of advertising dictatorship: in extreme simplification,
the bigger voice you have, the most you can influence people, usually in a
totally amoral way. But that’s another story...