On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Len Ovens wrote:
<dream helmet on>
I think the MOD is in many ways the wave of the future. I see off-loading
more of the sound processing to the audio interface as the general computer
interfaces become more throughput oriented and less lowlatency capable.
Having an audio interface that is kind of a secialty computer, but with OS
access for the user just makes sense. Many AIs already have quite a lot of
processing inside, but are not open. The cost is not that high for this added
processing (end cost of $50?) and I would think having the ability to add
processing power with cards the size of the mini/micro PCIe wireless cards
should not be difficult. If Jack is run with very low latency, then using a
netjack like interface between cores could easily allow the use of 16 or more
cores/threads and still have an acceptable latency. What if a second (open)
video card was used for audio processing?
To add to this, I am wondering, because of the higher latency of some of
the newer USB AIs, if it would make sense to have a jack backend that
allows jack to run at a lower latency than the AI. So the AI would run
64/2, but jack would run at 32/2 or less so that there was time to offload
processing on more cores/threads.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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