[linux-audio-user] Re: alsa midi processor again

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:39 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/19/05, Paul Coccoli <pcoccoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My only gripe is that it displays MIDI channels as 0-15 instead of
> > 1-16.  Seems like half of the linux audio apps use 0-15, and the
> > others use 1-16.
> 
> Thats because computer start counting with 0, sooner or later you will
> get used to it...
> 
> AFAIK the midimessages also use channels 0-15 (0-F).

It's equally broken on Windows, the MME devices are numbered Wave0/1,
Wave2/3, but the ASIO channels are labeled "ASIO 1" through "ASIO 16".

IMHO anything exposed to the user needs to be labeled from 1.  I've
never seen a mixing board that numbered the channels from 0...

Lee