Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 23:57:21 EET
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:40:01 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > Well, no, because for advanced instruments (eg. a full featured
> > sampler) we have jack.
>
> Well, yes - modulo a sample accurate event system that deals with
> stuff beyond MIDI.
OSC?
> > > Or we just design an event system and strap that onto JACK as
> > > well as a stripped version of LADSPA. :-)
> >
> > I think its reasonable to expect a jack app to be able to natively
> > understand MIDI/OSC/CV/whatever.
>
> Sure - but how do I connect a sequencer to it, and how do I make it
> all stay in sync? I think people will soon expect timing and reliable
> of softsynths to be *better* than h/w synths + MIDI; not worse.
Well, alsa-seq, DMIDI or OSC, the linux MIDI sequencers I've seen support
alsa-seq, and some support OSC. All of these will give better timing than
hardware MIDI IIRC.
- Steve
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