[linux-audio-dev] MIDI Clock and ALSA seq

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Feb 14 10:27:01 UTC 2003


On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:54:35 +0100, Roger Larsson wrote:
> On Friday 14 February 2003 15:02, Steve Harris wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to hack up a quick app that sends MIDI clock pulses in sync
> > with a ringbuffer playback.
> > 
> > I've got it reading MIDI (thanks to Matthias' great exmaple code), but I
> > cant figure out how to send MIDI clock pulses explicitly. The ALSA seq
> > interface lets me set it up to go automatically, but I want to send a
> > clock pulse every 1/24th of the buffer, so the sync is correct.
> > 
> 
> How about dividing the buffer in 24 frames. And send one MIDI event each
> frame? Doable?

That's exactly what I'm trying to do, but I can't figure out how to
construct the midi clock event.

- Steve 



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