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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:54:40 +0100, Felix Homann <linuxaudio at showlabor.de>  
wrote:
> Am 16.02.2013 20:31 schrieb "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
>>
>> If you like to use MIDI as a serial interface for something else, then I
> won't call it MIDI,
>
> Have you heard of MIDI Show Control?

No, I heard about MSC for the first time now. MIDI is limited, has many  
drawbacks, MIDI on modern computers add additional drawbacks, so instead  
of thinking to program for all kinds of usage, it IMO is important to get  
rid of the issues MIDI does cause on PCs (*NIX and what ever OS else). I'm  
accustomed to get hard real-time for hardware MIDI. I found a way to get  
this for Linux on my machine, but this is possible, because Linux coders  
focused music.

"Musical Instrument Digital Interface"