Hello,
Roderick Colenbrander schreef:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Stefan Dösinger <[email protected]> wrote:
Though, how would MIDI be handled. I think that OpenAL doesn't handle MIDI...
Good question.
As far as I can see PulseAudio doesn't support MIDI either, but it is certainly
available in Alsa, CoreAudio and on Windows Vista, even though its more tricky
to activate HW midi on Vista.
Emulating MIDI through a software synthesizer won't fly, as this will make it
impossible to use hardware instruments.
A related topic: How do Joysticks connected to the gameport work(which is the
same hardware connector as MIDI). I think that a joystick already takes an
entirely different path in the Linux kernel and it doesn't get anywhere near a
sound system, so we don't have to bother about it. Is that correct?
Joysticks work using /dev/js or evdev these days. It was hard to find
some info on MIDI for Vista but I believe it still works using WinMM.
You really need oss or alsa for midi I think.
I wouldn't be surprised if this still was the case, we could keep the
midi interfaces around and just report 0 wave in/out devices for
oss/coreaudio/alsaa once we complete wine7audio.drv.
Cheers,
Maarten.
