[linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?

[Jay Vaughan]

>Jay, if you're looking for cross-platform MIDI solutions there's
>also PortMIDI which is being used as the primary MIDI system for
>Csound5.
>

I'm actually not looking for cross-platform MIDI any more - MidiShare 
does the job.  What I am looking for is a way to use as very little 
of ALSA as I possibly need to, while also maintaining a stable 
MIDI/Audio subsystem.

>And thanks again to Dr. Albert Graef for the msAlsaSeq bridge. That
>little gem makes it possible to wire any MidiShare app to the ALSA
>sequencer. Very cool to use Common Music to drive everything I can
>connect to the ALSA sequencer.

Its another example of how the MidiShare design really caters to this 
sort of approach.  The same position once held by the mighty 
msRawSerial/msRawMidi drivers can be filled by .. any .. driver. 
msInetDriver is pretty nice .. now if only i had the time to make it 
talk to CoreAudio. :)

>IMO Linux MIDI is tasting mighty fine these days. :)

It is pretty fine, I have to say, but then I've always thought so .. ;)

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Jay Vaughan