Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > yes, i agree that this is odd, and also wrong. however, i would point > out that very, very few people have been involved in the development > of ALSA. every month, a couple of people pop up, promising to "write [...] > there is only so much that jaroslav c

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Phil Kerr
Yes, all the real time messages can interleave with other MIDI data without problem, from the specs: Real-Time messages are intended for all units in a system. They contain Status bytes only -- no Data bytes. Real-Time messages may be sent at any time -- even between byte

[linux-audio-dev] Kernel developments: process scheduler (Ingo Molnar)

2002-01-04 Thread Roger Larsson
Hi, Use the newest patch release if you like to try this one. Note: probably not compatible with preemtive kernel (at the moment) /RogerL -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [announce] [patch] ultra-scalable O(1) SMP and UP scheduler Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 03:19:10 +0100 (CET) Fr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] SoundTracker + ALSA seq?

2002-01-04 Thread Phil Kerr
Hi list, I've just had bit of a play with ttrk, a midi capable tracker and it seems quite nice. http://div8.net/ttrk/ I had problems compiling 0.6.8, but 0.6.4 compiled (I'll drop the author a note in the morning). It only supports /dev/midi, but I've just had a bit of a hack and added DMIDI f

[linux-audio-dev] Kernel developments: disk scheduler (Jens Axboe)

2002-01-04 Thread Roger Larsson
I did not add the patch since it has already arrived in two bugfix versions... /RogerL -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [PATCH][RFT] simple deadline I/O scheduler Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:43:34 +0100 From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi

Re: (OT) [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread martijn sipkema
> > > Also most MIDI drivers for professional interfaces will not be in the > > > kernel. I would really like to get my Unitor working with Linux but I > > > don't know how to do this with ALSA. > > > > I'm not a programmer, but I can tell you that this is unfortunately true. > > I have an Opcode

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread martijn sipkema
> i can't find my copy of the MIDI spec right now, but MIDI clock (0xF7) > is the most obvious example. There are several others relating to the > song position pointer that are all single byte, plus MIDI time code as > well, plus active sense. in addition, though i don't swear by this, i > think

Re: [linux-audio-dev] SoundTracker + ALSA seq?

2002-01-04 Thread Josh Green
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 09:23, David Burrows wrote: > Some development questions: > > The community's interest and input for adding alsa sequencer support to > the brilliant application SoundTracker. Has anyone done this? > > Can the RME Hammerfall and ALSA be used for multi channel playback, 96k

Re: (OT) [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:42:27 +0100 Emiliano Grilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > venerdì, 04 gennaio 2002 alle 13:33:15, martijn sipkema ha scritto: > > Also most MIDI drivers for professional interfaces will not be in the > > kernel. I would really like to get my Unitor working with Linux but I >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Davis
>My idea was that the Midi Mapper was actually a userspace daemon. User >space process connect to the daemon with a library. Takashi has made some promising rumbles about moving most of the ALSA sequencer into user space at some point. Don't underestimate the difficulties of writing real-time d

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Davis
>> did you bother to ask on alsa-users? > >Its an odd project where you have to ask for installation information on a >mailing list while the web page has documentation which is 3 years old. yes, i agree that this is odd, and also wrong. however, i would point out that very, very few people have

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Davis
>umm. I am not sure where you are getting your information from but >/dev/midi works just great with USB MIDI devices under linux. I use an >sblive and an Roland UA-100 USB Box (2 midi in/outs + internal midi >synth + raw audio) but did you get this functionality from the standard kernel driver

Re: (OT) [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread martijn sipkema
> > Also most MIDI drivers for professional interfaces will not be in the > > kernel. I would really like to get my Unitor working with Linux but I > > don't know how to do this with ALSA. > > I'm not a programmer, but I can tell you that this is unfortunately true. > I have an Opcode Studio64X an

[linux-audio-dev] SoundTracker + ALSA seq?

2002-01-04 Thread David Burrows
Some development questions: The community's interest and input for adding alsa sequencer support to the brilliant application SoundTracker. Has anyone done this? Can the RME Hammerfall and ALSA be used for multi channel playback, 96khz 24bit support, real time effects and with external midi syn

Re: [linux-audio-dev] another MuSE

2002-01-04 Thread CK
I read: > > Well, has anyone sent them mail to invite them to the party? Sounds > like their insight would be useful! I'll get in touch with jaromil ASAP, he invited me for pasta some time ago to talk about freej anyway ... I'll try to be diplomatic ;) cheers x -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread martijn sipkema
> >My solution to this problem is to use SysV IPC message queues. Each read/ > >write to/from a message queue is atomic. That means as long as a each access > >of the message queue transfers a complete midi message (3 bytes for note on/of > >f > >or N bytes for sysex) then the message queue keeps

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread martijn sipkema
> > Well... Please enlighten me (and perhaps other not so bright people). > > My solution to this problem is to use SysV IPC message queues. Each read/ > write to/from a message queue is atomic. That means as long as a each access > of the message queue transfers a complete midi message (3 bytes f

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 03:15:16 -0800 (PST) Patrick Shirkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your talking about my site I have just collected all the music related > howtos I could find. I'm still trying to grok (onboard) midi but I'm pretty > close so once I get it up I'll be able to add something

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread Patrick Shirkey
>I have managed to install ALSA on my laptop and on my wife's machine but >have not yet installed it on my own machine, mainly because I was never >able to get ALSA midi support working. The documentation is woefully >out of date. I do remember seeing another installation howto from someone >i

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???

2002-01-04 Thread John Meacham
umm. I am not sure where you are getting your information from but /dev/midi works just great with USB MIDI devices under linux. I use an sblive and an Roland UA-100 USB Box (2 midi in/outs + internal midi synth + raw audio) I regularly do midi-mapper like things using such advanced tools as 'cat