On 09/20/2016 01:40 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> On 09/20/2016 07:03 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >>> >>> Because netjack isn't good enough >> >> correct. >> >> jack can have a single timebase master and likewise netjack has a single >> net-master. >> >> Ableton-Link is decentralized: Multiple performers can interact with >> each other on an equal level (no master/slave semantics). >> >> It's not groundbreaking tech. Laptop orchestras and the likes have used >> similar techniques since a while, but all prior-art that I know is ad-hoc. >> >> As far as I know this is the only protocol concerning *musical-time* >> that's spec'ed out, has a cross-platform reference implementation and >> potential to find its way into hardware. >> >> Feel free to criticize the protocol on a technical level or hunt for >> bugs in the implementation ... or simply ignore it silently. >> > > So then the next question would be is there any reason NOT to integrate it > directly into JACK? >
There's an existing feature request already: [1] JACK cannot be slaved to anything. jackd is always master, so there's a conceptual conflict. Closest concept is jack-timebase master [2]. A client can provide musical-time to jack and thereby to all jack clients that support jack transport. So yes, there are some reasons to not *directly* integrate it, but like existing jack tools [3] (jack_lsp, jack_connect, jack_transport,...) it could be included with jack one way or another. Seamless integration is possible. It just needs someone to do the work. Rui already has a working standalone prototype (no timebase support yet, but it's a good start). There are also some technical details to be sorted out: e.g. the current Link reference implementation requires C++11, jack-tools are C89... but those are details. Cheers! robin [1] https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2/issues/231 [2] http://jackaudio.org/files/docs/html/group__TransportControl.html [3] https://github.com/jackaudio/tools _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
