> For what you describe below, netjack, rtpmidi are probably the best open and > available right now options. Well, for me this is the real challenge: if I can get things done with an inexpensive network, why in the world should I buy Dante or similar stuff? In other words I want to demonstrate that a carefully designed setup using entirely or mostly FLOSS s/w can rival in many ways its commercial counterparts at a fraction of the cost, and without bothering about licensing, obsolescence and so on. If I had (that much) money, I’d rather give it to admirable developers like those among you. > Ok, so you wish to use many (for some definition of many) soft synths, one > or two per computer to be easy on cpu use and use network instead of audio Exactly. Indeed I am already running this kind of network, and I can see more and more ways to expand the current configuration as I go on with my tests. That’s why I want to share my ideas with the community. ;-) > excelent utility). There is someone doing something like this with four > computers using netjack but I forget his name and webpage. At least one of > his boxes is a windows box and the rest are Linux. If you ever recall that someone, please let me know. > Yes that could be done... the same thought had crossed my mind, though I > am not sure why two jacks per machine (or more) would be better than one. > Jack2 already uses all the cores/threads it can find if it can (routing > allows). Nor do I. I think the explanation he gives on his page about performance is not really convincing, nevertheless the idea he came up with reminds me a bit of LADISH concept of “room”, but somewhat more flexible. > For those in advertizing out there... I have a word for this kind of > music: "channel changer" If anyone reading this advertizes on a radio > station playing computer generated music with the teenager of the week > singing karaoke over top, maybe find a different radio station to > advertize on. This is about "popular" (pop) music but unfortunately that > is my first thought when I see the last paragraph. One hopes you are > creating something better. > > With current marketing trends that are individualized where each view or > listen is counted, our choice of what we deign to watch or listen to can > push things one way or the other. I agree with you in general terms, but we all have to face the fact that we are living in an age of advertising dictatorship: in extreme simplification, the bigger voice you have, the most you can influence people, usually in a totally amoral way. But that’s another story... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
