Re: [LAD] making sense of Jack MIDI; or, is this an appropriate use for Jack?

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas < pedro.lopez.cabanillas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: it certainly would be laughable if someone were to do that. but it appears that this is yet another de-personalized attempt to point the finger specifically at *me*. if so, then i find that a bit odd, given that i have repeatedly explained right here on this list, even with the last few months, the pros and cons of ALSA vs. JACK MIDI for different purposes. i have no idea why you find it necessary to cast me as some kind of special case in this community. i happened to be involved in the design of JACK, which has been successful against my own expectations and these days against my own judgement. i'm also the principal developer of ardour which has been quite successful and have managed to make a living from (which was never the original goal). i also happen to have strong opinions on what good audio/MIDI software design looks like, and i don't shrink from sharing those with this (and other) contexts. i understand that you're upset by my historical dislike of the KDE/Qt "world", but if you actually bothered to engage with me rather than just throw caustic barbs in my direction, you might find that (a) it has ameliorated somewhat over time (b) its largely irrelevant. it might also be possible to understand that what i have "against" the ALSA sequencer is not the functionality that it provides but its implementation as a kernel-side facility, which i believe (and can substantiate with numbers and facts and old mailing list discussions) is the result of beliefs about linux that may have been true but have not been true for many years now.