[LAD] Re: [LAU] [ANN] a2jmidid - first release

From: Nedko Arnaudov <nedko@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 13:06:46 EEST

Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:05:55AM +0300, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
>> a2jmidid is daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in
>> JACK MIDI system. It is based on jack-alsamidi-0.5 (jackd alsa seq midi
>> backend) by Dmitry Baikov. The main purpose is to ease usage of legacy,
>> not JACK-ified apps, in JACK MIDI enabled systems.
>>
>> It is tested, and works, here, with current SVN jack. ATM it may or may
>> not work with other variants.
>>
>> Planned features/improvements:
>> * One JACK client per ALSA sequencer client
>> * Improved build system (autotools) and support (better handling) for
>> other JACK variants (older MIDI API variants, jackdmp)
>> * More control on what ports to bridge (currently bridging is fixed to
>> non-hardware ports).
>> * Real daemonization with log file, init.d script, etc.
>>
>> If someone wants to contribute please, contact me, or send patches, or
>> request inclusion (Gna! a2jmidid project). As usual, packagers are more
>> than welcome too.
>>
>> Homepage with screenshots: http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/
>>
>> Tarball download: http://download.gna.org/a2jmidid/
>>
>
> What is the difference between this application, and running jackd -X seq?

With current codebase, none (or minor, non-essential). Main purpose it
to handle hardware devices through raw midi in jackd and alsa seq apps
through a2jmidid simultaneously.

-- 
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>

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