Re: [LAU] Jack sample-rate

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Dec 12 2015 - 17:07:13 EET

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Filipe Coelho <falktx@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

>
> This is by using switch-master.
> You can change your entire JACK setup on the fly, including the selected
> soundcard.
>

effectively, the instance is stopped and restarted. all ports and port
connections go away, unless recreated by whatever does the restart.

>
> If you keep the same jack settings but only change the sample rate you'll
> effectly change the jack sample-rate on the fly.
> Note that JACK2 will call the buffersize and samplerate callbacks to
> inform clients of the change.
> But yeah, since this was something that JACK was not designed for, *all*
> major clients that exist right now do not support this.

it wasn't just that it "wasn't designed for". we explicitly discussed it
and decided that the mere possibility of a changing SR imposed too much of
a burden on clients.

i still don't know, in retrospect, if this was a correct analysis.

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