[LAD] making sense of Jack MIDI; or, is this an appropriate use for Jack?

[David Adler]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:46 PM, J. Liles wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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>> what could make quite a bit of sense would be a utility JACK client that
>> played an SMF file via JACK MIDI. this would be *relatively* simple to do
>> (once you figure out what godawful lump of code you plan to use to parse
>> SMF) and would be quite instructional for future questions such as yours.
>>
>> however, this tool does not exist at this time.
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> Yes it does. jack-smf-tools. I've seen a few others too the names of which
> escape me (in Python, I believe).
>
Ther's also jpmidi. Playback only, written in C.