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On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 02:06 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:06AM +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:

> > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:56 +0100, leslie.polzer@gmx.net wrote:

> > > Hello audio users,

> > >

> > >   I'm working on JACK Rack 2 and would like to know how many of you are

> > > using more than two channels and how important you consider more than

> > > two.

> >

> > I don't work with ambisonics, but some people might want to use the

> > ambisonics plugs in jack rack. They deal with 4 streams. With

> > ambisonics, you would probably want to have a different number of inputs

> > and outputs.

>

> That's indeed the case, and it's difficult to say which combinations

> would be tyical or improbable. There should be no artificial limits.

>

> > I have an idea to make better use of these plugins: what if in cases

> > where there are more than 2 streams, the ports would be represented in

> > the gui, and the connection model between those ports and the

> > inputs/outputs would be visualized and maybe even configurable.

>

> You can do this with AMS of course...

I agree that AMS/om etc. are better for freely routed processing, and

doing free routing is almost against the purpose of jack-rack which is

supposed to be a very easy, fast to use, serial plugin processor.
But, my idea is that the even if the connections cannot be routed

freely, the GUI would *show* how the outputs *are* routed. Knowing what

actually happens makes the tool more usable.
--

Sampo Savolainen