[LAU] Bridging alsa and jack midi

[Rui Nuno Capela]

On 09/27/2014 09:59 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org
> <mailto:rncbc at rncbc.org>> wrote:
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>     On 09/27/2014 09:16 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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>         On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Rui Nuno Capela
>         <rncbc at rncbc.org <mailto:rncbc at rncbc.org>
>         <mailto:rncbc at rncbc.org <mailto:rncbc at rncbc.org>>> wrote:
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>              that said, it would be awesome to merge your hack Paul.
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>              i can vaguely remember something about that from you a year
>         ago or
>              so, but i also remember you also recalled and scrapped it
>         the next
>              day, so nothing was patched yet :(
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>         i didn't pass it on because i started to get some crashes with
>         qjc that
>         i hadn' t had before.
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>              is there any plans for (re)posting the "qjackctl pretty-name
>              metadata patch" or whatever it's called?
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>         it is a pretty deep change (i threw out all support for JACK port
>         aliases). but i will post it at some point because i don't have
>         time to figure out the nature of the (very occasional) crash (yet)
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>         jack port aliases *should* be deprecated. it is a mechanism that
>         should never have seen the light of day.
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>     there's the "jack port aliases" and there's the "qjackctl
>     client/port aliases". they are two different things and orthogonal.
>     the later is what i believe may be integrated with the "jack
>     pretty-name metatada" interface.
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> http://community.ardour.org/files/qjc-pp.png
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ok. so i guess that means we are in tune :)-- drop the old deprecated 
"jack port aliases" and adopt and/or adapt the even older "qjackctl 
client/port aliases" as to latest "jack pretty-name metadata" interface.

may i/we look at some source code or patch anytime soon ? ;)

cheers
-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org