Re: [LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread Iain Duncan
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:04 PM, David Robillard wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 14:35 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > [...] > > None of the other APIs that you've mentioned have this property, and > > nor do any of the Windows MIDI APIs or CoreMIDI. > > > > this means that you face opposing issues de

Re: [LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread David Robillard
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 14:35 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: [...] > None of the other APIs that you've mentioned have this property, and > nor do any of the Windows MIDI APIs or CoreMIDI. > > this means that you face opposing issues depending on which API you > choose to use: > > * if you use JACK: >

Re: [LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread Nick Copeland
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Iain Duncan wrote: > Hey folks, what is the easiest way to deal with midi input in a jack app? Dave mentioned that you want to use the Jack API entirely, I think he probably meant that on Linux you can safely rely in having an access method that just takes MIDI

Re: [LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Iain Duncan wrote: > Thanks for that explanation. In my case, I believe I will have two kinds of > midi input, one that would be best served by the first set of tradeoffs and > the other the second, namely, the user may be playing a synth, or the midi > input may

Re: [LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread Iain Duncan
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Iain Duncan > wrote: > > Hey folks, what is the easiest way to deal with midi input in a jack app? > > I'm confused by the difference in jack midi and alsa midi, because I have > > two midi inputs, one is a usb

Re: [LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Iain Duncan wrote: > Hey folks, what is the easiest way to deal with midi input in a jack app? > I'm confused by the difference in jack midi and alsa midi, because I have > two midi inputs, one is a usb input, so it appears at a low level as an alsa > device, but t

Re: [LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread David Robillard
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 10:46 -0800, Iain Duncan wrote: > Hey folks, what is the easiest way to deal with midi input in a jack > app? I'm confused by the difference in jack midi and alsa midi, > because I have two midi inputs, one is a usb input, so it appears at a > low level as an alsa device, but

[LAD] handling midi input in a jack app?

2011-12-28 Thread Iain Duncan
Hey folks, what is the easiest way to deal with midi input in a jack app? I'm confused by the difference in jack midi and alsa midi, because I have two midi inputs, one is a usb input, so it appears at a low level as an alsa device, but the other is the midi input on a firewire unit, and it appears

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