On Wed, February 24, 2016 8:42 am, Jonathan Brickman wrote: > >> >> >> >> No, I know the difference very well. My architecture currently >> has seven synchronous parallel chains right now ( see >> http://lsn.ponderworthy.com/doku.php/concurrent_patch_management ), >> >> >> >> this document is a clear explanation of why the person that made >> application-level modular audio possible on Linux now believes in >> Monolithic DAWs :) > I don't doubt it! But there is no monolithic DAW and never has been, > that could give me half of what you and the folks who designed the rest > of my tools are mostly responsible for producing :-) And that is much > appreciated !!!!! > FYI, we are using on a very regular basis for a number of years now numerous instances of JACK running on multiple hosts which communicate via netjack. So from our experience your goal of running multiple RPi's is certainly achievable. You may need to get a few spare screens/keyboards to make things slightly easier for administration purposes. In our studio the building is the monolithic DAW. One of the benefits of this approach is that NONE of our computing hardware ever gets 'end of life'd' and we can add in additional processing power any time we need to without having to completely rebuild the entire operation for every new work station. We literally save hundreds of thousands of dollars compared to our colleagues who insist on running monolithic solutions at their studios. The result is that every dollar we spend is expanding the capacity of our system without sacrificing the progress we have already made. The only things we have to be concerned with is the cost of electricity and keeping an eye on the increasingly unusual and extreme weather patterns. We can leverage the power of the swarm in ways far beyond that of a monolithic setup. However it probably takes a masters degree or two to make this kind of thing work well so it is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
