[Linuxsampler-devel] Win32-Integration-Proposal

[Tobias E. <t.e...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

I've followed the project for a couple of month now
and I was always interested in doing some work for
this.  I think someone mentioned that one of the
goals of LS was the idea of having a rack of Linux-
based samplers running and use them from remote
by their favorite sequencer-program.

I thought this was a pretty cool idea and would like
to offer to implement some kind of Win32-support for
this.

My idea is the following:

I have already written a generic ASIO-driver for the
Windows-Plattform (www.asio2ks.de) and I thought about
including some network-streaming-code, so this asio-driver
would have the "real" audio-ports from underlying
soundcard and have "virtual" ports which are fed over
IP/UDP/RTP from LS. I think the local network should
provide for low enough latency for this...

So if you have a sequencer like Cubase, you would define
the "virtual" ports as inputs into the cubase-mixer and
the "real" ports as output for monitoring to the monitor-
boxes...

What do you guys think about this?

Tobias

PS.:
Obviously there would be the need to implement a
virtual soundcard for ALSA as well - but perhaps
someone already developed such a beast ;-)