[LAU] ecasound - MIDI note-on/note-off

[Josh Lawrence]

Hello list,

I attempted to send this to the ecasound list, but it failed.  Hope
you all don't mind me sending it here in the hopes of getting an
answer...

I've been researching ecasound today after seeing it mentioned on the Linux
Audio Users' list a few times.  After doing a lot of reading, it seems that
ecasound would be the *perfect* host for a modular synthesizer setup
(a la AMS, but text-based).  In fact,
I found an old post on the LAU list where someone had done just that.  All of
the LADSPA plugins are there for doing such a thing, but...

Does ecasound support basic MIDI note-on/note-off messages?  i/o/w, can I
connect my keyboard to it and it understand note-on and send it to, say, a CAPS
VCO plugin?  In doing my research, many of the posts seemed to indicate that
this behavior was NOT supported, yet I found other messages that said ecasound
supports the ALSA sequencer API, so I'm confused.

FYI, I have a working Linux audio system setup (Debian), my MIDI keyboard is
recognized by ALSA, jackd runs great, etc...

Thanks for your help!

Josh Lawrence

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