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

[Christoph Eckert]

> 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.

That's not a problem, that's the usual evolution as seen may 
times in the free software world.

The problem is that an audio developer these days has less 
chances to choose the "right" system. That's why commercial 
software (Realplayer, Skype) often still uses OSS - it's easy 
to do and works on many un*x machines.

What's missing is a clear guideline for (newbie) programmers 
of audio applications and maybe an example client or library 
which is able to autodetect the audio subsystem.

[...]

> there are millions more people doing audio on windows than
> on osx, and yet windows requires *at least* as much work to
> get setup for pro-audio as linux. so what conclusion do we
> draw from that?

Lat's do it better :) ?


Thanks & kind regards


    ce