Re: [Jack-Devel] JACK on mobile

On October 20, 2013 04:29:34 AM you wrote:
> 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.

LOL The phone accidentally rings during a live gig through an amp stack.
"Uh, hello? Yes dear, I'll bring home some milk and bread!"

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