Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: dj-ing hardware under Linux

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 22:20:40 EET

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:14 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:35 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Shouldn't MIDI control be integrated at the toolkit level (GTK/QT)
> > > rather than having to do it in every app?
> >
> > why MIDI? why not OSC? why not HID ? why not serial control ?
> >
>
> Exactly. Shouldn't all this live at the toolkit level?

that doesn't scale properly.

LAC2005 had a paper on integrating MIDI into any X application. Slightly
clunky but pretty cool. doing this via low-level X stuff scales much
better than expecting toolkit Foo (for all values of Foo) to provide a
MIDI interface plugin.

--p
Received on Tue Mar 14 00:15:10 2006

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