[linux-audio-dev] Interaction bug between zynaddsubfx and muse.

[Bill Allen]

fons adriaensen wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 06:42:02PM +0100, Robert Jonsson wrote:
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>>Indeed, there are several issues at work here...
>>In anycase, MusE has from 0.7.2pre2 a fix that enables synths with identical 
>>names to be used.
>>Also, in the case with ZynAdd, another option is to use only one instance. 
>>ZynAdd can have one patch for each midi-channel running. The only drawback is 
>>that you cannot apply external effects to individual patches, but ZynAdd has 
>>a whole bunch of nice internal effects.
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>What's probably happening is that recent versions of JACK will if necessary
>modify a client's name to make it unique, while ALSA doens't because IIRC it
>doesn't care about the name but identifies clients by a number that it
>assigns itself.
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>So if you want unique names (and the same) for audio and midi, you still have
>to provide them on the client's command line. OTOH, sequencers should identify
>midi connections by their client number, not their name.
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>AMS should handle multiple patches without requiring a separate instance
>for each.
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That would be great, as ams is my favorite synth, but I haven't found a 
way to do it. When you say "should" are you saying that I should be able 
to find a way, or that somebody should be able to add the capability to it?