Re: [Jack-Devel] JACK on mobile

On October 19, 2013 12:43:38 PM John Emmas wrote:
> On 19/10/2013 12:18, Paul Davis wrote:
> > John - latency matters for synth- and FX-related applications. Take a
> > look at the many different instruments that exist for iOS. To whatever
> > extent any of them are more than toys and actually represent something
> > that can be played, it is generally fairly critical that they can be
> > used with low latency.
> 
> That's an excellent example.  As someone who wasted far too much of my
> youth tinkering around in bands I can definitely relate to that. I was
> thinking of "pro" audio in terms of high-end sound recording / film  /
> television etc but software instruments are undoubtedly a much bigger
> market.
> 
> Assuming the technical challenges could be overcome, Patrick's best hope
> then is probably to line up some instrument and FX manufacturers to help
> progress his argument.
> 
> John

I'd love if a phone could do guitar effects, and the tinier the better - to
 a certain extent. Latency matters here.

Tired of lugging my 90's effects rack unit. It has old style time-domain 
 pitch shifting. The phone would hopefully have enough power to do 
 high-quality pitch shifting (but of course that adds much latency anyway).
Slap a Guitarix instance in there for the awesome distortion/overdrive 
 and other effects, and I'm happy.

Currently I'm looking at buying a small net-book for this purpose,
 but hey if a phone could do it...

If the phone could handle midi input, even better, for virtual synths etc.
But whatever the device, I guess the only sane way into most devices 
 these days is with USB for both audio and midi?

Cheers.
Tim.

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