16 Jan
2008
16 Jan
'08
10:06 a.m.
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 14:43 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
With the release of Jack 0.109 we now have a
(hopefully)
stable API for midi-over-jack. This set me to consider what
would be required to modify Aeolus to use this system.
And I did not like the conclusions.
Is it a good idea to insert a 30-year old data format
that mixes real-time and general data on a single stream
into a real-time audio processing API ? I don't think so.
Nobody else does either.
But: there is *no* other standard that exists to describe what MIDI
describes in a useful way that is even close to be remotely useful with
a variety of h/w and s/w.
So: we make do.
JACK MIDI was explicitly designed with the idea that it would *not* be
useful for large sysex messages. we looked at it and decided that it was
not possible to come up with an API that would serve both goals.
--p