[Fluxus] Windows support? ::ducks::

[Tim Capelle]

perhaps asio itself isnt supported but the jack for windows site makes claims that any program that uses asio is able to input into jack. i will check into this when i get home to see if it indeed connects and will test the latency.


On Nov 27, 2011, at 14:33, Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com> wrote:

>> and what about jack? is it a real alternative for windows audio users? or
>> should we use another audio interface?
>> 
> My knowledge is only up to XP, but the issue as I experienced is that
> ASIO was the only low-latency way of interfacing that was supported by
> the kind of program we can anticipate will be used here (Ableton,
> Renoise, Traktor/Final Scratch, etc). ASIO has decent latency, but it
> assumes a single program will connect to a single soundcard (and claim
> that whole card). I don't think we could even get the (or a) audio in
> while the rest of the card is used by some DAW or similar. People then
> use all their plugins and things as clients from the DAW.
> 
> Rewire as a protocol is no option, I think. I seem to remember they
> have a library to use the protocol but refuse FOSS clients. On top of
> that not everything supports Rewire.
> 
> Maybe Jack could work, it's out on Windows and suits our needs, but to
> be honest I never heard of anyone actually using it, which makes me a
> bit doubtfull.
> 
> If that doesn't work we could considder having a VST plugin that
> passes on all input and also sends it FLuxus. That would work but it's
> very hacky, more work and probably still leaves a lot of people out;
> I'm not sure the current crop of virtual DJ programs support
> insterting VST plugins on the main mix. Sadly that's the only option
> I'm sure would work in practice (well, theory...) as that's also the
> one I like least.
> 
> 
> Yours,
> Kas.