On 22 Jul 2002 23:10:55 +0100 Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 22:11, Phil Kerr wrote: > > One of the strong points of Linux, and UNIX in general, is the way > > small app's can be strung together, this is the most flexible > > approach. > > This is true, but only of apps that can fit in to the way that Unix > does its stringing together; ie, filestream-based apps. It is > indeed advantageous to bend the way you work into this in many > instances when you're trying to get a computer to do work. > Unfortunately, audio work isn't one of them. There is no such > framework to provide similar functionality to audio programs, yet. > > Jack provides an excellent transport for audio, but that is rarely > the only thing that audio programs require; MIDI and parameter > controls are also needed more often than not.
Well, that's exactly what ALSA Sequencer api proovides, midi transport between apps. Juan Linietsky
