Re: [LAD] A question about LV2 audio

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:16:19 +0400, Louigi Verona wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>>
>> there's no limitation on lv2.
>>
>> i think you misunderstood something, but any lv2 host has obvious
access
>> to the audio stream produced by _any_ plugin. how could it be
otherwise?
>>
>> your question seems to pertain on rendering audio that is produced by
>> midi instrument plugins _faster_than_realtime_ .
>>
>> i also think you are inferring from qtractor as the sequencer. that's
>> true: qtractor cannot render midi instruments audio in no other way
than
>> real-time. so that for you to export the whole session (song or
project)
>> you'll have to bounce (record) all midi instruments audio output into
>> spare audio tracks and then, when all is perfectly realigned to
>> compensate for round-trip delay, you can mix-down and export all audio
>> tracks into a single audio file.
>>
>> theoretically, any jack-midi plugin host can do the
faster-then-realtime
>> trick, thanks to the jack-freewheel mode of operation. alas, qtractor
is
>> not a jack-midi host, although it does the freewheel dance to export
>> audio, as ardour2 does. speaking of which, ardour3 may well confirm
this
>> theory ;)
>>
>
> How is that done on Windows then? I never heard of any problems there?
When
> you use VST, it renders them fine
> and Windows has no JACK.
>

you're pervading the issue ;) don't do that! :)

alas, in case you did not read between the lines, *it is* a qtractor
limitation, one that i'm afraid won't go away any day soon. but it might,
some day, somehow ;)

> ps: sorry if my questions are silly, I really am trying to understand

if questions are silly answers should be sillier. are they?

cheers

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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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