Re: [LAU] Anyone interested in JACKifying Beatrix?

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ken Restivo wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:30:29PM -0700, Tim Howard wrote:
Hi,
I was just thinking it would be really great if someone (with
programming skills several notches higher than my own) could JACKify
Beatrix.  Now, I realize that Beatrix is not GPL'd software, so it
doesn't have anywhere near the community interest that it COULD
have... <ahem>
...
Any thoughts?
Have a look in the archives. This was discussed recently.

Hi,

I do have an interest in making Beatrix more suited for plug-in environments, but it is a long road. The main issues that concern an adaptation are (in no particular order):

 * The system sample rate is more or less fixed at 22.05 KHz.

 * The system buffer size is set at compile-time.

 * Dynamic memory is considered not to be a problem and is not released
   when free (this is not a leak - it just remains allocated but unused).

 * There is no support for shutdown/unloading.

 * The reverb FX hogs the cpu due to denormal numbers.

 * The rotary speaker FX has a flaw for which two fixes exist: either
   a huge lookup table or additional cpu cycles. Which is most
   appropriate?

 * There is no real user interface and for portability there is no UI
   service interface.

Further, to take full advantage of plug-in environments the overdrive, reverb and rotary effects should probably be broken out of the main chain. This creates a conflict with the current configuration mechanism which of course assumes that they are integrated. This is probably a secondary issue, since as independent FX units they need their own and independent control surfaces anyway.



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