[linux-audio-dev] MIDI API

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:32:02 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 19:21, Jody McIntyre wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:11:44PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, once Jack has MIDI, all we need is a jack-over-ethernet driver,
> > > and the world is ours! :)
> > > 
> > > (Network transparent low latency sample-accurate cross-platform MIDI and
> > > audio... mmmm...)
> > 
> > I assume you're joking, but I have to ask anyway: how are we to achieve
> > low latencies over a medium with no bounds on transmit time? :)
> > 
> 
> UDP.  If you don't get the packet in time, drop it and move on.

UDP also has unbounded transit time. In practice its OK if you dont want
low latencies (just use RTP), but for low latency you really need one of
the non-IP ethernet protocols that can be relaibly used for audio.

- Steve