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

Jay Vaughan jayv at synth.net
Mon Jun 13 23:42:15 UTC 2005


>An API becomes 'official' ... when its uses but most of the
>developers. Remember the old days of OS9 when the 'official' MIDI
>API was Opcode OMS.... when MidiShare was already in the field. The
>official is not always the 'best' one, but the one pushed by
>powerful people... and/or at the right time.

i beg to differ.  a good developers maxim might be: whatever API you 
choose, make it famous.

in my opinion, MidiShare has provent its worth as a working 
code-base, even before Linux.  the few elitists in a select crowd or 
two might well recognize that fact.

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Jay Vaughan




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