On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:24:36PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Renato <rennabh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > A more general thought: what about implementing a new type of generic > > "control" signal in JACK, and having existing audio apps accept these > > it has been discussed. it has not been implemented. there was some > opposition, and as you note, any control signal can be recast as an > audio signal. it would not be hard to add it, but clients would have > to support the new port type explicitly and it would confuse others. I don't buy that. Only clients that need the new port type would have to support it. You could as well say that MIDI ports confuse pure audio clients - it's just not true. As to confusion, using audio type buffers for control signals - without any way to identify those except maybe by name - would generate a lot more of it. But since it's the only way, I'm already doing that in two new apps. They both use audio channels as a bundle of 16 control signals. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
