Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 05 2002 - 12:15:04 EEST
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:04:35 +0100, nick wrote:
> Hmm, maybe we need equivalent on JACK for midi (or is that a planned
> feature?)
It has been discussed, but MIDI is not a very good match for jacks's
model. Jack really assumes that the amount of data for a given time is
constant, and that isn't true of MIDI.
OTOH, thinking out loud. MIDI is 31,250baud, so, for 256 samples per block
@ 48kHz, you would only need 20 odd bytes to store all the (raw) MIDI that
could be sent or received in that timeslot.
Anyway, the ALSA MIDI stuff seems to do a good job of the routing stuff,
so it doesn't seem that neccesary.
- Steve
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