[LAU] Running Status v.s "Ordinary" Status and MIDI merging

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Crypto <crptdngl71 at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 at 17:52:35 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>
>> Does KeyKit have ports that are listed by "aplaymidi -l" (ALSA sequencer
>> ports), or does it want to read from devices named /dev/midi* (OSS ports)?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Clemens
>
> Clemens,
>
> there are two ways keykit can handle its ports and both need different
> settings when compiling the sources. I thought I had compiled keykit to use
> ALSA sequencer ports but aplaymidi -l indeed does not list keykit's ports. So
> I guess they must be OSS ports and ALSA is wrapping them invisibly for me.
> aconnectgui shows keykit ports so I have never suspected anything.
>
> I have never intended to use anything different than ALSA sequencer MIDI
> connection and I am not sure how it all happened I have not gotten that for
> keykit.
>
> Now I am trying to recompile keykit so it can connect to ALSA sequencer ports
> and have more than one IN and OUT port, and, hopefully, supports incoming
> running status.

I wrote the code in keykit to support the ALSA MIDI sequencer. its
there. i haven't used keykit in a while and i don't have it installed
on any of my systems right now, so i can't tell you how to use it.