> People aren't making music on ASIO-capable sound cards,
sorry what :) I don't know anyone who does a bit of remotely serious music making who doesn't have at least some USB focusrite or something like that
> On any modern OS, you don't write directly to the sound card, you write to a buffer which the system mixer does the FX graph on, then that goes to the underlying sound system. CoreAudio, WASAPI and PipeWire are all built like this.
Paul Davis is the author of JACK and Ardour fyi, I think they have a good idea of how things work :p buffers are unavoidable but I don't see webaudio allowing me to use a 64 frames buffer size and still be able to put in some effects and play with some softsynths like I have right now, or even being able to run isolcpu and tweak DMAs to entirely devote specific CPU cores to audio processing.
For "people" read amateurs who haven't even heard of Focusrite (I hadn't.)
I expect many people fooling around with GarageBand or VCV Rack don't have any special sound card. Also, it doesn't seem that uncommon to for musicians to make recordings using a cell phone?
Nobody makes finished recordings for distribution with a cell phone. Field recordings for use as samples? Sure. Something to get the overall feel of a performance? Sure. A dedicated mic on an instrument because nothing else was available? Sure.
But recording when it matters is dependent on the microphone, the pre-amp and the A/D converter, none of which are of suitable quality in a cell phone to be the basis for a "serious" recording.
This is not what I see on YouTube. Professional recordings are outnumbered by amateur ones. They are as "finished" as they're going to be and sometimes they get a big audience.
Sure, maybe most professionals don't do that but you said nobody does that, as if amateurs don't exist.
Well, I guess there's also recordings with a line-in from a mixing console with the mics&pre-amps on the other side of that, and sure, that's a thing, and I ignored that with my comments. That setup gives you just-about-good-enough quality (certainly way better than ye olde "direct from desk" bootlegs of past time).
I was thinking more of setups where you connect a mic/pre directly into the phone.
Most of the time I've seen people doing this, however, they are using "native" recording apps on their phones, not a browser.
sorry what :) I don't know anyone who does a bit of remotely serious music making who doesn't have at least some USB focusrite or something like that
> On any modern OS, you don't write directly to the sound card, you write to a buffer which the system mixer does the FX graph on, then that goes to the underlying sound system. CoreAudio, WASAPI and PipeWire are all built like this.
Paul Davis is the author of JACK and Ardour fyi, I think they have a good idea of how things work :p buffers are unavoidable but I don't see webaudio allowing me to use a 64 frames buffer size and still be able to put in some effects and play with some softsynths like I have right now, or even being able to run isolcpu and tweak DMAs to entirely devote specific CPU cores to audio processing.