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On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:41 +0100, Malte Steiner wrote:

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> so we wont see 5 chant machines/plugins in Aldrin, singing=20

> professionally, controlled by the tracker? :)

>=20

> My hopes were so high...

>=20

> But seriously, jumping in for AMS would be considerable. I like its=20

> sound and all, can even deal with the brownish color (Moog again?) but=20

> yet there is some reason why I not use it that much.

>=20

> About modularity, rejecting the plugin idea does not mean rejecting=20

> modularity. I meant the complete opposite, Alsamidi and Jack makes it so=20

>   easy to plug different applications, that plugins are not so necessary=20

> anymore. With Lash we can hopefully soon complete recall a setup.

JACK isn't really suited for doing modular type things - there is a

fixed number of ports you can use (which is rather low by default) and

doing a context switch for every ugen will get rather expensive. Same

goes for the ALSA sequencer or any IPC-based routing system. JACK is

great for connecting a couple of clients, but building a large modular

synth patch from JACK clients isn't the best way.
--ll