[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it (slightly O/T)

[Will Godfrey]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:01:46 +0100
Chris Cannam <cannam at all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:

> I've been away from the coalface for a bit; it might be interesting to
> take stock and see whether there is a more obvious right way to do it by
> now. I suspect it would start by canning the ALSA MIDI support and going
> JACK-only, since ALSA MIDI support contributes much of the complexity of
> Rosegarden's sequencer code, but I don't really know. Like any developer
> who worked too long on a project, I sometimes dream of tearing apart
> Rosegarden to its component blocks and rebuilding it more neatly -- but
> I will surely never do it.
> 
> 
> Chris

Hi Chris,
Nice to see you here again - and talking about Rosegarden after so long!

This MIDI issue strikes a chord with me. As a new and (very) green dev for
yoshimi, functionality that I want to add, looks comparatively straightforward
with JACK, but a right can of worms with ALSA MIDI :(

-- 
Will J Godfrey
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