Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] linuxsampler without hdd

[Pieter P. <pi...@jo...>]

Mike Taht wrote:
> 
> But what do you need 10 linuxsamplers servers for? (it would be neat to 
> know what your requirements really are) The expense and pain of hooking 
> good sound cards and all those audio outputs together digitally with a 
> distributed clock would be far greater than merely using the best 
> sampler servers money could buy. I would hope that more modern dual 
> core/dual cpu box than mine would scale to over 512 96khz voices when 
> used as pure sound source (but I don't know how well ls scales across 
> multiple cpus)
That will be solved by FreeBoB in the next 6 months: just put a $20 
firewire card in all PC's. FreeBoB will allow you run jackd on the slave 
machines and have them present themselves to the master as if they were 
standalone firewire device (like a powercore). A firewire 400 bus can 
run about 100 channels at 96kHz. And it also runs midi along. The jackd 
instance at the master would see all 'output ports' defined on the 
slaves as input ports.

The only problem, severely limiting the usability of this, is that 
currently we only have a jackd backend, and this means that you can't 
run the output of this network through a non-freebob audio card (freebob 
supported devices would just appear next to the slave ports). But that 
will be also solved.

Greets,

Pieter

PS: this should be ready by LAC2007, but no promises.