Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ideas for a new MIDI API
From: Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd_AT_mega-nerd.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 09:08:16 EET
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:42:27 +0100
"Martijn Sipkema" <msipkema_AT_sipkema-digital.com> wrote:
> > > - It would allow only one application to have an input or output
> > > open at a time since merging is nontrivial.
> >
> > Non-trivial but HIGHLY desirable. I want to run a synth pathc editor
> > and a sequencer simultaneously so I can tweak the synth's patch while
> > a sequence is playing.
>
> That may be. But multiplexing can be done using a seperate mixer
> application that can be accessed by the sequencer/patch editor as
> normal outputs. I don't want the API to compete with the ALSA
> sequencer, but to be a more flexible and slightly higher level RawMidi
> kind of interface that only supports very basic time ordered scheduling.
What about Midi devices which aren't supported by ALSA like the usb midi
interfaces?
Erik
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