Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] App intercomunication issues, some views.
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 16:09:32 EEST
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:48:45 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> the question is, however, to what extent is it worth it. the reason
> JACK exists is because there was nothing like it available for moving
> audio data around. this isn't true of the MIDI side of things, where
If you actaully want to deal with raw MIDI (you'd be mad, but...) then its
OK, as the maximum ammount of data per jack unit time is pretty small, but
I agree, it's better dealt with via the alsa api.
> parameters controls could be easily handled by OSC, which could be
> integrated into JACK fairly easily. the problem with OSC is that the
> reference implementation is probably the worst piece of coding i have
> ever seen outside of the internals of Csound. i was very keen to add
Yes, It's terrible. I remeber hearing from someone a year or so ago,
who was incharge of cleaning up the source. I never heard any more though.
- Steve
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