[linux-audio-dev] Re: Freebob-devices

[Pieter Palmers]

Christoph Eckert wrote:

>>At this point only JACK is supported, not ALSA.
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>Not a true limitation, because I always use JACK.
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>What about the MIDI ports: I guess I couldn't use it currently (not a 
>true limitation for me)?
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Midi is currently supported through an ALSA sequencer 'client', i.e. the 
freebob device acts as an ALSA sequencer client providing access to all 
hardware MIDI ports.

In the future I think the jackd backend will include native jack-midi 
support (once that is matured enough), while the upcoming ALSA driver 
will be either seq or rawmidi based. I would think that rawmidi would be 
the best solution, but I didn't look into it yet.

Pieter