[linux-audio-dev] Re: Synth APIs, pitch control

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Dec 13 05:46:00 UTC 2002


On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:42:39AM +0200, Sami P Perttu wrote:
> Even as a control language MIDI has a lot of shortcomings that it's time
> to get rid of: note pitch values, low precision most everywhere. We might
> as well design a format ourselves. XAP can probably accommodate simple
> "musical" plugins but we really need another plugin system for the
> sequencer... like you, I would really like to have something that is
> usable yesterday but it's not going to happen, sigh.

We allready have an API for sequencers, alsa-seq, I've never used it but
it seems to work well.

- Steve 



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