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

[Arnold Krille]

Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 schrieb Florian Schmidt:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 schrieb Florian Schmidt:
> > > On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Edward Tomasz Napierala 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..
> > So you want a virtual keyboard that does alsa when you don't have jack
> > running? Whats wrong with vkeybd?
> What does that have to do with adding ALSA support to jack-keyboard?
> Diversity is a good thing..

Well, yes, diversity is a good thing (especially on wireless microphones:). 
But reinventing the wheel for the Xth time seems as such a waste of valuable 
programmers time! Why even start to reinvent a virtual keyboard that does 
jack-midi? Why not extend vkeybd with a jack-midi-backend? (*)

Arnold

(*) Apart from the fact that vkeybd uses an ugly gui-toolkit :-P
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