Re: [Jack-Devel] Ports vs Channels in JACK

@Paul and Frederick - Thank you both. This clears everything up. :)

@Paul - the metadata api you mentioned, is there any plans of this coming
to jack2?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Frederick Gleason <[hidden]
> wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 20:03 57, Hai Nguyen <[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > So I was wondering what kind of mapping there is between say L and R
> > channels and JACK ports? Or does a mapping even exists?
>
> Assuming that one is speaking of *audio* ports (as opposed to, say, MIDI),
> all ports are single-channel.  Designations like ‘left’ or ‘right’ (or
> 'left-front', ‘right-rear’, etc) are up to the application layer.  JACK
> provides the mechanism, not the policy.
>
> Cheers!
>
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