Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] midi re-direction?
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 14:05:51 EET
>A nice intro to writing MIDI apps using C/C++ can be found below:
>
>http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~craig/articles/linuxmidi/
IMHO, this is a dangerous introduction for one very important reason.
its discussion of kernel scheduling for MIDI I/O is about the OSS
sequencer. The OSS sequencer is an even bigger nightmare than the OSS
audio API, and it would be very, very disappointing to see any new
applications based around this limited, not particularly coherent, and
inflexible system.
ALSA is now officially part of Linux 2.5. Lets get people to think
about the future, and get away from the
good-first-try-but-not-good-enough design that OSS represents. Please?
--p
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