Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio over Ethernet / Livewire
From: Benno Senoner (sbenno_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 06:08:29 EEST
chriswareham_AT_chriswareham.demon.co.uk wrote:
>Wasn't there also a proposal for MIDI over ethernet? It would be
>quite a neat idea for a totally software based studio - have the
>sequencer on one machine, while softsynths, samplers and whatever
>else could be spread across more powerfull machines. If such an
>interface could be seen at the userland level just like any other
>MIDI device, support would be seamless.
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>Chris
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I discussed these issues at the latest ZKM LAD conference with Paul
Davis (jack) and Francois Dechelle (ircam)
and the most flexible approach seems to add networking capabilities to
jackd and the jack client library.
Plus considering that midi over jack is being implemented too you would
have both midi and audio over ethernet
through jack, available to any jack client without the application
needing to be changed.
We are interested in allowing clusters of LinuxSampler machines and we
here we need both audio and midi
over ethernet so I assume devs from the LS team will contribute to the
jack networking stuff too.
Since we need both midi and audio Paul said it's probably the best to
wait that midi over jack is implemented and then
start planning how to export this data over network.
The cool thing of such an audio/midi network protocol would be that you
could write VST/AU plugins on windows/mac which
sees the remote machines like they were local plugins.
(there is already a commercial audio/midi VST over ethernet solution
http://www.fx-max.com/ )
cheers,
Benno
http://www.linuxsampler.org
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