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On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:24:36PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Renato  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,
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