17 Jan
2008
17 Jan
'08
4:36 p.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.
1. Note on/off and controller events now can be 'sample
accurate'. That's nice to have. But
[...]
2. *All* MIDI data now has to pass through the
RT-audio
audio thread, even if it's not related to any RT operations
at all
[...]
So, after this long wait of things being different and incompatible in
SVN and a release /finally/ coming out, you NOW decide to bring all this
up?
Large SYSEX is a difficult problem that was deliberately not considered.
Sub-sample accurate stamps would be great though, and I bet they would
have gotten in too - but it's a little late for that now, isn't it?
-DR-