[linux-audio-user] Best list for Linux MIDI questions?

Larry Troxler lt at westnet.com
Thu Feb 27 23:41:01 EST 2003


On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:46, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Larry,
>    I ask most of mine on Alsa-Dev, and generally get pretty fast
> answers. I'm about to start a MIDI problems thread (big problems
> unfortunately...) and have to decide where to do it, so your email is
> timely.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Unfortunately, I don't still have the email, but I think I read something from 
Frank Barknecht to the effect that this list really should have been called 
linux-audio/midi-user.

So I suspect that MIDI questions are welcomed here, and the confusion in my 
case is one of nomenclature. Of course, we could get pendantic and wonder if 
even some MIDI questions are truly about MIDI, if they only involve virtual 
"MIDI" through soft-synths. The last I read,  MIDI isn't just a messaging 
protocol, but defines the _hardware_ interface as well. I of course could be 
wrong about this, and at this point, I admit to starting to ramble and be 
thinking out loud.  For that matter, (and this probably reveals how long I've 
been using MIDI), do you still have to pay money to the MMA to get a copy of 
the MIDI specs? Is the MIDI spec still at rev 1.0? Or is that whole 
organization dead?

Larry






>
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 19:11, Larry Troxler wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I asked this once a couple of years ago, but not only do I not remember
> > the answer (I think it may have been it's ok to post here but we should
> > really rename the list), but the answer may have changed since then.
> >
> > For Linux MIDI topics (not audio, but MIDI), what would be the most
> > appropriate list to post on? For my purposes, I think alsa-user since
> > ALSA is what I use. Any thoughts? I take it that there is not a
> > linux-midi-users list!
> >
> > Larry




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