[LAD] New kid on the block

[Will Godfrey]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 19:56:54 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:47:12PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
> 
> > The jack ring buffer is already used for data transfers
> > from jack midi to the dsp code
> 
> Why would you want to do that ? Jack MIDI is received by
> Jack's realtime thread which also calls the DSP code (or
> so I assume). So any MIDI events that will be handled 
> by the DSP code (normally note-on and off and controllers)
> don't need to be buffered at all. You'd need to buffer
> only those events that can't be handled by the real time
> DSP code (e.g. program change).
> 
> Ciao,
> 

I'm carefully feeling my way round the code trying to get familiar with it
before making any major changes. I don't know why it's done like that.
Unfortunately the person who implemented it is no longer here to ask.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.