[linux-audio-dev] midi controls API, is it possible?

[Jesse Chappell]

You might want to check out RTMix, not quite what you describe
but with possibilities:
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/cpu.shtml

jlc

antoine rivoire wrote on Sat, 20-Sep-2003:

 > Hi all,
 > I am working towards using a set of linux audio apps in a live context.
 > With recent development of Jack and apps such as djEQ and such, things
 > look promising. In this light, an idea came to mind. (Keep in mind that
 > I am thinking aloud, and that I am no expert in audio or midi
 > programming).
 > How feasible would it be to implement and a Midi controller API to have
 > a standard, graphical ( a la qJackconnect) application API that Synths
 > and such could use to change midi controllers assignment on the fly or
 > load existing presets?   
 > I don't think that the audio framework that has been worked on in linux
 > had live use in mind, but I am convinced that it lends itself to it.
 > 
 > In the same context, and this might already be possible, is it possible
 > to have a script calling different apps with patches/presets for each
 > one of those? I am thinking along those lines:
 > during performance:
 > Call script -> opens say Zynaddsubfx with a certain master, Freqtweak
 > with a certain session, Hydrogen with a certain song etc -> call end of
 > piece from script which exits all these apps -> call another script for
 > next piece.
 >  Regards
 >  Ant-
 > -- 
 > antoine rivoire <antoine.rivoire at ntlworld.com>
 > 
 >