Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] audio application mixing/routing arch
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 17:21:19 EEST
>generalized interprocess architecture (aRts, alsa, mucos?) that will allow
>for instance 4 processes:
>
>1. Software HD recorder with 8 tracks of output
>2. Software Sampler with 8 tracks of output
>3. Software Synth with 8 tracks of output
>- into -
>4. 24 channel Software Mixer with lots of plugins :)
>
>The ability to connect app->plugin and app->app would be very flexible and
>very cool. Anyone know how this is done in the mac/windows world?
A) I doubt that you could run the above in real time with low enough
latency to make the synth playable from a MIDI controller. Although
modern processors are fast, there are limits :)
B) As far as I know, you can't do what you describe in the mac/windows
world using distinct applications, only with plugins.
ReWire from Steinberg is aimed at giving the appearance of
something like this, but in reality, it appears to me to simply be
a way of enforcing good GUI/engine design separation in a program,
such that you can rip out the engine as a library and link it into
another program. Or something like that.
--p
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