Re: [Jack-Devel] JACK on mobile

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Patrick Shirkey <[hidden]
> wrote:

>
>
> I know for a fact that I am not the only person in the whole world who
> wants to see JACK running on mobile platforms other than iOS.
>

You're not. I'd be very happy to see Android be a suitable platform for
music creation and pro-audio applications. That isn't going to happen given
the current underlying technology in Android.

Regarding other mobile technologies, I would direct you to one of Brian
Lunduke's talks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKwWPQ1Orzs

(remember there is a companion video to this one).


>
> JACK is a very powerful and flexible solution for professional audio. If
> you think that it is actually inferior to coreaudio I will have to
> politely disagree with you.
>

It isn't inferior to any native audio API because it relies on them all and
does something different. However, what CoreAudio does do (which neither
ALSA nor ASIO do) is provide a native API that works very well for both
consumer, mobile and pro-audio/music creation apps that all have widely
differing needs. ALSA can be used to get close, but to do things right,
ALSA needs to be involved and to be modified/extended.


>
> We have two choices.
>
> 1: Add support to JACK so that it can be a drop in replacement for PA
> 2: Optimise PA so that it can provide the most efficient combination while
> JAK is running
>

3. Provide a proper native API on the platform.

Coming up with a solution to the PulseAudio/JACK situation ought to be the
goal of a well-funded Linux-wide project because it also involves ALSA and
the desktop. To do it properly requires a lot more than hacks to either PA
or JACK.

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