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

[Edward Tomasz Napierala]

On 0520T1952, Arnold Krille 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? (*)

Rewriting it from scratch seemed easier.  And probably was easier.

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