12 May
2010
12 May
'10
6:32 p.m.
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
it in a nice way that can be adopted easily by the
developers. I understand that the ALSA sequencer API is
huge and cumbersome, but the minimalist approach of Jack
MIDI may be just another mistake in the opposite
direction.
When writing MIDI apps, I want to deal with a normalized,
time-stamped MIDI byte stream (like what JACK MIDI) gives.
I really dig the JACK MIDI API because it gets out of my way
and lets me do my job.
I never liked the ALSA MIDI API because it was trying to do
too much crap /for/ me. I have to spend a bunch of time
grepping through source code (because the docs suck) trying
to undermine the ways its trying to help me.
$ 0.02
-gabriel