Re: [LAU] [LAA] [ANN] jack-keyboard 2.5

On 0520T1524, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> > What's wrong with using either "-X seq" option to jackd or a2jmidid
> > instead?
>
> Starting a jack daemon just to be able to send some midi to some midi device
> is maybe a burden sometimes..

Yes. However, well-behaved JACK clients should afaik start jackd
automatically. jack-keyboard does that since version 2.4.

> I like the idea of jack midi for internal
> routing between applications, especially between Sequencers and Softsynths.
> It lightens the burden on softsynth and sequencer implementers which would
> otherwise have to take into account all kinds of scheduling and priorityu
> issues. But MIDI also has more purposes than that..

Sure it does. But what makes ALSA MIDI more suitable for that purpose?

> Jack MIDI is not the answer to all things MIDI IMHO..

Personally, I like to think of ALSA MIDI as a legacy interface.

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