22 Sep
2008
22 Sep
'08
8:04 p.m.
Hi,
I'm having difficulty understanding what the
difference is between jack
midi clients and alsa sequencer midi clients.
hehe :) .
ALSA just is a driver layer. Formerly, it has been (ab)used to in- and output
audio as well as MIDI. Which is not the job of a driver IMHO.
JACK has been introduced as a low latency *audio* driver, but it *didn't*
support MIDI. Thus we ran audio via JACK but MIDI via ALSA sequencer.
Weird enough? Yes, it is. So meanwhile JACK finally supports MIDI besides
audio. If you want to, ALSA sequencer MIDI clients are just deprecated.
Sorry to be bombarding
as an organist, I never read the verb "bombarding". Sounds very cool,
though ;-) .
you with questions, but in the absence of
documentation, it seems to be the only way to get an understanding of jack.
Phew, you're damn right. Maybe you'll be the first one who puts the things you
earned into some wiki page for documentation purposes :) .
HTH & best regards,
ce