[LAU] [LAA] [ANN] jack-keyboard 2.5

[Edward Tomasz Napierala]

On 0520T1524, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> > What's wrong with using either "-X seq" option to jackd or a2jmidid
> > instead?
> 
> Starting a jack daemon just to be able to send some midi to some midi device 
> is maybe a burden sometimes..

Yes.  However, well-behaved JACK clients should afaik start jackd
automatically.  jack-keyboard does that since version 2.4.

> I like the idea of jack midi for internal 
> routing between applications, especially between Sequencers and Softsynths. 
> It lightens the burden on softsynth and sequencer implementers which would 
> otherwise have to take into account all kinds of scheduling and priorityu 
> issues. But MIDI also has more purposes than that..

Sure it does.  But what makes ALSA MIDI more suitable for that purpose?

> Jack MIDI is not the answer to all things MIDI IMHO..

Personally, I like to think of ALSA MIDI as a legacy interface.

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