After pretty much 1 year of work the result is finally public.
For those that don't know, in early 2024 I joined the Darkglass Electronics company. Bringing the expertise developed through many years with MOD Devices / MOD Audio and my own projects, and started to create together with them a super fancy new Linux-embed based product.
This runs JACK2 inside with mod-host and LV2 plugins. Very soon to start opening up to external plugin developers.
Very exciting! 🎉
@falktx looks like an interesting option, great to see open source modelers hit a premium market. good luck with the release!
@falktx Looks and sounds good. I have just watched The Bass Channel demo on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFpFR3FXohA
@falktx Looks awesome. Want it. Now that Trump is tanking international trade, will there be chance of obtaining one without being swept up in the MAGA tariff wars?
@falktx ALL ABOUT DAT BASS
@falktx Congratz and good job. Is there a technical reason you went with jack2 and not pipewire?
@alf yes, CPU performance mostly.
all clients are internal, so no context switching. also no need for "security" or other details in a dedicated linux embed device without network capabilities.
It's also easier for me to tweak jack2 rather than pipewire.
And finally it's nice to have these projects that in a way help maintain the JACK project.
Stuff like
https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2/compare/develop...max-dsp-load has always been missing in JACK but now added because we needed it for Anagram.
@falktx I didn't know that, congrats!! And this looks really nice. Good work!
@falktx Looks like a fine product. Congratulations!
@falktx Congrats! Do I understand correctly that this is partially closed-source? Which parts are open and which are not?
@loki_bass the custom UI and DSP is all proprietary.
any existing software (jack2, mod-host, some lv2 utilities) of course remain open and get back patches, sent upstream where needed.
I try my best to have Darkglass adopt opensource where possible.
You can see some projects in https://github.com/Darkglass-Electronics
@falktx congrats Filipe! Now that looks awesome!