17 Jan
2008
17 Jan
'08
4:39 p.m.
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 17:41 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Pieter
Palmers wrote:
What it /really/ should be is a generic event transport mechanism (only
arbitrary FonsControls(TM) is just as bad as only arbitrary MIDI, and
jack doesn't need to care what the actual events are whatsoever).
I proposed this - in patch form - to the jack list ages ago and it was
shot down. I don't recall there ever being a legitimate "why".
-DR-
I guess you will agree if I state that it would
have been better if you
performed this though experiment while the API was still in a volatile
stage. But that observation doesn't help us, so let's not go down that
path. (FWIW I didn't think about the jack-midi API either back then...)
Well, IIRC, I did raise my voice then, saying it was a pity
that it was actually MIDI that was being implemented, with all
its limitations, and not some extended format that midi could
be trivially and losslessly translated to, using e.g. 32-bit
controller numbers, and floating point note numbers and
controller values.