Re: [LAU] [LAD] [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Improvisor lilypond support!?]]

Dave - I've had this argument with at least one of them online (somewhere). No, this particular person didn't get it and I suspect the others won't either. The critical arguments are:    (a) the linux kernel has a general design principle of providing mechanism not policy    (b) audio mixing is generally best done in floating point format (because otherwise its dog slow to simulate          fixed point on an x86-style processor) and the kernel cannot do floating point math    (c) as you allude, JACK is not about providing just shared access to the audio interface, but routing          between applications as well, which a kernel-based solution has no role in. this is why JACK          is still so useful on OS X, even though CoreAudio *does* support mixing multiple app