[LAU] Bridging alsa and jack midi

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:17:56 -0400
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Philipp Überbacher
> <murks at tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> 
> > on as far as timing.
> >
> > So I remember correctly that there used to be issues with -X seq.
> >
> >
> the -X seq option in current JACK1 is just a backward compatible hack
> to allow qjackctl and other tools to invoke the relevant stuff.
> 
> the actual implementation is nothing to do with the old -X seq code,
> and is actually a2jmidid converted into an internal client. Note that
> JACK2 could use this client too - its source code is even in the
> theoretically "shared" git repo for JACK tools.

Is there a new, recommended way to do the same thing? I only found -X
alsa_midi in the man page but it does not have the same effect.

Why isn't jack2 using the same client? It seems more convenient to just
use jack with -X seq rather than running another program.

Regards,
Philipp