Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] VST link (open?)
From: Richard W.E. Furse (richard_AT_muse.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 00:25:10 EET
I remind everyone that LADMEA is still out there. I've spent almost no time
on it since the original posting (and I know there are some areas needing
work) given the general lack of interest in anything this complex/general.
www.ladspa.org/ladmea/
--Richard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu
> [mailto:owner-linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Dustin
> Barlow
> Sent: 22 January 2002 21:38
> To: linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] VST link (open?)
>
>
> >Well, given that we don't even have the functionality that VST offers,
> >its hard to see how we'd be trying to do what VST Link does. Its also
> >hard to tell, from what Steinberg have released so far, exactly what
> >it is that VST Link does. It could just be a distributed word-clock
> >like signal that is used for block-based sample clocking. It could be
> >a positional sync reference like MTC or SMPTE. It could be both. It
> >could be something else. Its not really possible to tell just yet.
>
> I agree. So let me rephrase the question. Is there any movement or
> interest in having a multi-node audio system that can be
> controlled from a
> master host that uses a communication protocol that will provide
> more then
> just sync info? For example, it would be really sweet to have a
> node that
> just does effects processing and has no need to waste any of its cycles
> driving a gui. It could just be a "server" in the same sense that a
> black-box commercial effects unit would be.
>
> I know this can be done now with MTC and or STMPE sync between
> two or more
> computers and some creative routing of digital signals via either
> TOSLink or
> SP/DIF, but it would be much nicer to do away with all of that
> and instead,
> bandwidth permitting, to run all of that info on one full duplex
> connection.
>
> >Once we can tell, I can pretty much guarantee that JACK, as an
> >existing synchronous execution engine, will evolve to support similar
> >functionality, unless Steinberg are doing something incredibly wierd,
> >or patented.
>
> Sound very interesting. It would be really nice to have the
> ability to have
> a signal routing sub-system (including remote) that would allow
> both audio
> data and sync information to travel in full duplex across a single wire
> (maybe Firewire or TOSLink) to multiple nodes (ie. a Beowulf type
> system for
> audio).
>
> I currently run a AMD T-Bird 1.2ghz, 1 gig of RAM, Adaptec U160 and a 10k
> rpm IBM drive, and I have very little trouble kicking it in the
> pants when
> running large mixing sessions with lots of audio tracks and VST plugs
> (running at 24/48). Seems to me that no matter how fast a single
> box gets,
> we will still push them to their max (and beyond) at some point.
>
> db
>
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