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

[Nedko Arnaudov]

Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas at gmx.net> writes:

>> > 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?
>
> Zero added latency for one. jackd only makes sense for inter-process delivery 
> of MIDI signals. For inter-machine sending of midi where the other machine 
> might be a hardware synth, it doesn't make sense at all to send the signal 
> through another daemon..

AFAIK this is just wrong, JACK ALSA MIDI backends are normal ALSA MIDI
clients, there is nowhere you get additional latency.

-- 
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>
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