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

[Stéphane Letz]

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>> thing is though: he does have a point.  why is this stuff still so
>> hard, after so many years?  its -not- the drivers, imho, its the
>> moving-target nature of ALSA and all the competing audio API's,
>> underneath a pile of semi-working apps ..
>>
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> the competing APIs is definitely a problem. the OSS guys continue to
> refuse to accept ALSA, and continue to promote the benefits of  
> their API
> and libraries. The layers that have been built on top of them
> (PortAudio, JACK, the arts audio api, gnome-sound, etc) continue to
> compete with each other in various ways.
>
> what is happening on linux is similar to the windows world: multiple
> audio APIs each of which serve a different purpose (windows own MM  
> api,
> ASIO, GSIF). OS X has a head start here because they forced everyone,
> even the email client writers, to use a callback model for audio I/ 
> O via
> CoreAudio. if we could do that on linux, the biggest headaches  
> could be
> solved quickly. but as you note, we can't.

Maybe hoping that a "darwin like" selection process would keep the  
best APIs at the end... something that is not the case on others  
systems.

Stephane