of some relevant for LAAGA/JACK's design. from a review in EM of "Reason":
Reason is also enabled for ReWire, Propellerhead's protocol for
communicating multichannel audio between software applications. ReWire
lets you do things such as
> >Would it be possible to return better values for:
> >
> >snd_pcm_hw_params_get_channels_min / max
> >snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate_min / max
> >
> >when the plug layer is used?:
> >min_ch: 1
> >max_ch: 1073741823
> >min_rate: 1
> >max_rate: -1
> >
> >This way the users has to enter how many channe
