Re: [LAU] [ANN] a2jmidid version 2 released

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

> On Sat, Oct 27,
> 2007 at 10:23:23PM +0300, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
>> Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> writes:
>>
>> > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:40:59PM +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.
>> [snip]
>>
>> > Now, just to make sure I understand: this is for people who are
>> > using released versions of jackd that *do* suppport JACK MIDI (i.e
>> > 0.103.0), but aren't using the lastest jackd from SVN which has
>> > suport for the -X option to do this functionality within jackd,
>> > correct?
>> It will help them, but not with hardware ALSA seq MIDI ports,
>> because currently a2jmidid ignores them. This can be fixed easily in
>> code until a2jmidid gets more configurable.
>>
>> > Once there's a new jackd release, with the -X option, will this
>> > too be needed anymore?
>> It will still be needed for users that want using raw ALSA MIDI
>> backend (and skipping additional ALSA sequencer layer). This is
>> setup I have here, I use -X raw but I still need connecting legacy
>> ALSA MIDI apps to JACK MIDI apps.
>>
>> Althrough not intentional, it may help for JACK drivers that don't
>> support JACK MIDI nativily yet. IIRC JACK MIDI ffado driver support
>> is not ready yet.
>>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Will it also work with jackdmp?
>
> I have been procrastinating trying out jackdmp because JACK MIDI
> hasn't been merged in to it yet, but if this will bridge that gap for
> me, I'll try it out.

I never used jackdmp, so I really have no idea.

-- 
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>

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