[LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:10 +0100, Jay Vaughan wrote:

> I'd be willing to help with any and all MidiShare problems,  
> honestly.  I think its a wonderful, stable, productive way to do MIDI  
> on Linux.  If only more people knew about it, and ditched the attempt  
> at re-inventing a well-rounded wheel, already.  The MidiShare design  
> lends itself to integration with JACK, for example, very, very well ..

I could be wrong about this, but I seem to recall Stephane Letz, one of
MidiShare's contributors and a colleage of its main author, telling
me/us that MidiSare did *not* lends itself particularly well to
integration into JACK.

AFAIK, MidiShare's goals are pretty much identical to the ALSA
"Sequencer", it just accomplishes them better. I don't believe that the
notion of sample-accurate MIDI handling within a processing graph that
is run in common with audio is part of its goalset.

--p