Maybe write a quick jack host?

[phstrauss]

For peoples who want to participate but don't have the hardware. I was starting to write/vibe code a STFT analyzer in golang, this bass effect thing bring some motivation in but my coding abilities are not tremendous.

[phstrauss]

I've just made two gist of jclient.h and jclient.c, plus, more idiomatic, jack_passthru.c.

[qasim78678]

A small JACK host could definitely be useful, especially for people who want to experiment without the hardware. Being able to plug the effects into a standard JACK setup and monitor or analyze them would lower the barrier quite a bit.

That said, I think it’s worth being careful about scope. A minimal JACK passthrough host that can load the effect and stream audio in/out makes sense. Once that exists, things like an STFT analyzer or other tooling can sit on top of it or be separate utilities.

If you already have a simple jack_passthru.c, that’s probably the right direction: keep it small, focused, and easy to build. If you turn that into a minimal, documented example (build instructions, how to connect it with jack_connect, etc.), it could be a good starting point for others to build analyzers or GUIs around.

Feel free to link the gists here, and if you want to move this forward, a small PR with a basic JACK host + docs would be the best next step.