[linux-audio-user] Re: dj-ing hardware under Linux

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:14 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:35 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Shouldn't MIDI control be integrated at the toolkit level (GTK/QT)
> > > rather than having to do it in every app?
> > 
> > why MIDI? why not OSC? why not HID ? why not serial control ? 
> > 
> 
> Exactly.  Shouldn't all this live at the toolkit level?

that doesn't scale properly.

LAC2005 had a paper on integrating MIDI into any X application. Slightly
clunky but pretty cool. doing this via low-level X stuff scales much
better than expecting toolkit Foo (for all values of Foo) to provide a
MIDI interface plugin.

--p