9 Apr
2005
9 Apr
'05
2:21 p.m.
Paul Davis wrote:
Hi Paul! First of all sorry if that did sound a bit rude, as it was not
the intention. I understand that everyone is working hard on Jackd. I
also know the story behind jack-midi , I'd love to contribute and help
to it, but I am an employed person and I just have no free time to work
on something like that. I am also not going to develop Chionic for some
patched version of a library (and not the official tree) because it
would force users to use that version. Chionic was even on hold since
november because I didnt have time to prepare a release. In any case,
now that I have a bit of time I am now seeing about development a of
host plugin API with integrated UI, with the concepts we talked about
with Torben, this way I can make the sampler a host plugin to sequencers
and not worry about Jackd (which, as you said, if understand well, is
not meant for that). I hope that this will be of use to Ardour and other
projects too whenever, for audio, and for when they support Midi.
Cheers!
Juan
I'm over
with the development of chionic, on it's first release. I have
to sadly accept that as much as it works the way I want, I cant
communicate my sequencer to chionic in the way I need (because Jackd is
too poor to do it the proper way).
[... ]
CHIONIC IS DEAD UNTIL SOMEONE DECIDES TO PICK IT
UP AND CONTINUE
DEVELOPMENT (or until Jackd matures enough.. yeah right :)
this style of complaining about the lack of MIDI in jackd is
irritating, to say the least.
jack was not written with the goal of handling non-streaming
byte-oriented protocols. despite that, ian esten managed to add MIDI
support very rapidly (less than a week, including 2 complete
reimplementations).
the reason jackd doesn't have MIDI support is that ian went to work
for a rather large commercial audio software+hardware company, which
raised difficult issues about our ability to accept his code. it has
taken a long time (too long) to get an official and unambiguous
release from the company to make it clear that they have absolutely no
claims on jack-midi.
if jack-midi is so important to you, take the work that ian post to
LAD (which is unambigously clear of any claims because it was written
before he started working there) and fix up the issues with
it. otherwise, please quit whining as if it was someone's job to
provide you with the facilities you want.
jack will support MIDI, its just hard to predict the timescale right
now.
--p