On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:06AM +0200, Sampo
Savolainen wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:56 +0100,
leslie.polzer(a)gmx.net wrote:
Hello audio users,
I'm working on JACK Rack 2 and would like to know how many of you are
using more than two channels and how important you consider more than
two.
I don't work with ambisonics, but some people might want to use the
ambisonics plugs in jack rack. They deal with 4 streams. With
ambisonics, you would probably want to have a different number of inputs
and outputs.
That's indeed the case, and it's difficult to say which combinations
would be tyical or improbable. There should be no artificial limits.
I have an idea to make better use of these
plugins: what if in cases
where there are more than 2 streams, the ports would be represented in
the gui, and the connection model between those ports and the
inputs/outputs would be visualized and maybe even configurable.
You can do this with AMS of course...
I agree that AMS/om etc. are better for freely routed processing, and
doing free routing is almost against the purpose of jack-rack which is
supposed to be a very easy, fast to use, serial plugin processor.
But, my idea is that the even if the connections cannot be routed
freely, the GUI would *show* how the outputs *are* routed. Knowing what
actually happens makes the tool more usable.
--
Sampo Savolainen <v2(a)iki.fi>