[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Ralf Mardorf]

Brett McCoy wrote:
>>> Yeah, that would be ugly to implement correctly and likely be illegal
>>> from the licensing agreement of the manufacturer. I just run 'em on a
>>> separate (Windows) box anyway and use midi-over-ip to synch with Linxu
>>> apps.
>>>       
>> Wouldn't it be possible to use MIDI over IP and to get the audio stream by
>> the network into the Linux box?
>>     
>
> Might be able to with netjack, but don't know how well that works with
> Linux -> Windows. You can send MIDI to Windows via netjack, but you
> need a jack-MIDI bridge. Don't know if the opposite will work, routing
> the audio from a Windows app back to Linux. I use SPDIF on the slave
> machine to route audio back to my Linux box right now, but you can't
> do multiple audio streams that way.

SPDIF is a good idea, even if an additional sound card should be needed, 
it could be a low-cost card.