[linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:40:01 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > Well, no, because for advanced instruments (eg. a full featured
> > sampler) we have jack.
> 
> Well, yes - modulo a sample accurate event system that deals with 
> stuff beyond MIDI.

OSC?

> > > Or we just design an event system and strap that onto JACK as
> > > well as a stripped version of LADSPA. :-)
> >
> > I think its reasonable to expect a jack app to be able to natively
> > understand MIDI/OSC/CV/whatever.
> 
> Sure - but how do I connect a sequencer to it, and how do I make it 
> all stay in sync? I think people will soon expect timing and reliable 
> of softsynths to be *better* than h/w synths + MIDI; not worse.

Well, alsa-seq, DMIDI or OSC, the linux MIDI sequencers I've seen support
alsa-seq, and some support OSC. All of these will give better timing than
hardware MIDI IIRC.

- Steve