Re: [Jack-Devel] JACK on mobile

Am 20.10.2013 04:08, schrieb Tim E. Real:
> 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.
You can't run guitarix on your phone, but you can control it with your 
phone will running it on a pi or a cubiebord, or even on a net-book.
And that is were I see those little mobile devices right now, they are 
useable as control devices.
Last week I visit a concert from VolBeat in Birmingham, the sound 
engineer use a iPod to adjust the MIC's on stage.

> 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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