[LAD] Deciphering jack-smf-utils -- Jack MIDI stuff

[M Donalies]

I haven't really looked at the recorder program, but the player is pretty 
cool.

To make it easier for me to understand, I simplified the code somewhat (got rid 
of lash stuff, reduced output to a single port, etc) so my code excerpts below 
don't match up exactly with the original code.

The first question is a rather stupid one: How long is a Jack frame? If we're 
running at 44.1 kHz, is a frame 1/44100 sec? Or is it some multiple? Or is it 
something else? And does the process callback get called at each frame while 
transport is rolling?

process_callback() calls process_midi_output(), wherein we find:
	port_buffer = jack_port_get_buffer(output_port, nframes);
Why the nframes parameter? Is there a separate buffer area for each frame?

A little later in the same function we have:
	last_frame_time = jack_last_frame_time(jack_client);
Is this the time of the end of the last process cycle?

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