Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Paul Davis wrote: > >Sending/receiving sysex has always been possible AFAIK. It's > >certainly possible now. > > its bounded by size limits that have to (re)set in advance. when i > tried to download new firmware (1MB+) via SYSEX to an Alesis ADAT, it > was very difficult to discover this limitati

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Goetze
Clemens Ladisch wrote: >Tim Goetze wrote: >> * what kind(s) of sync-to-external will you need? >> * do you want to receive/send MIDI sysex data? >> >> last time i checked, the latter was impossible to do via the sequencer >> API (please correct if things have changed). > >Sending/receiving sysex h

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Davis
>Tim Goetze wrote: >> * what kind(s) of sync-to-external will you need? >> * do you want to receive/send MIDI sysex data? >> >> last time i checked, the latter was impossible to do via the sequencer >> API (please correct if things have changed). > >Sending/receiving sysex has always been possible

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Tim Goetze wrote: > * what kind(s) of sync-to-external will you need? > * do you want to receive/send MIDI sysex data? > > last time i checked, the latter was impossible to do via the sequencer > API (please correct if things have changed). Sending/receiving sysex has always been possible AFAIK.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Tim Goetze wrote: i found the sequencer API to be well-documented. Internally right? it's somewhat lacking in code examples, but there are quite a few applications out there that use it (pmidi for a start maybe, and then we have rosegarden, muse etc). I just spotted this older doc http://www.a

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Goetze
Clemens Ladisch wrote: >Denis de Leeuw Duarte wrote: >> I'm starting work on a new midi sequencing app, but I'm a bit confused by >> the different API options ALSA offers. I've been reading whatever snippets >> I can find on the web, mostly mailing list archives, and if I understand >> correctly m

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Denis de Leeuw Duarte wrote: > I'm starting work on a new midi sequencing app, but I'm a bit confused by > the different API options ALSA offers. I've been reading whatever snippets > I can find on the web, mostly mailing list archives, and if I understand > correctly my options are basically the r

[Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Denis de Leeuw Duarte
Hello folks, I'm starting work on a new midi sequencing app, but I'm a bit confused by the different API options ALSA offers. I've been reading whatever snippets I can find on the web, mostly mailing list archives, and if I understand correctly my options are basically the rawmidi API and the alsa