[LAU] Simplest USB MIDI --> wireless --> JACK ?

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

> > Looked it up.  I like a lot!  I'll just have to get started :-)  Tell
> > me: why ALSA-MIDI on the RPi side?  Does this mean I don't have to have
> > JACK running on the RPi?  That would be most extremely cool.
> 
> If you are only using one path as in this case, Jack will serve no
> purpose. Alsa is already there and keeping running bits as few as possible
> will give the best timing. KB -> pi(alsa -> qmidinet -> wireless)
> Or with Jack: Kb -> pi(alsa -> netjack - > wireless)
> 
> The problem with netjack, is that one end runs as a backend and so if
> network fails, jack fails. The master side will keep running if the slave
> side is out of range, but the slave side jack would exit. If you were
> running audio as well, then netjack might be better as it is all in one.

Got it.  Soo-eet.  A lot simpler than I had thought.  Hopefully I'll be able to get the RPi to do a peer-to-peer with the synth, that would keep things simple too.  Thanks, folks!!!


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