3 Mar
2011
3 Mar
'11
9:04 p.m.
Kim Cascone wrote:
Not true of Yoshimi. Yoshimi does both JACK and ALSA, for either MIDI or
audio.
Zyn is less cooperative.
Hello Kim,
Yes I know that article, which is very biased I think, but I was
referring to your article on CDM in which you state that for music
production on Linux one only needs ALSA (or FFADO for FireWire) and JACK.
I see -
this is correct and true - until one encounters other legacy
layers which might present problems -- I have a vague memory of needing
to add a Jack<-->ALSA midi bridge for Yoshimi synth as well as some sort
of OSS ALSA mod for some other app to work - sorry but details are fuzzy - Bedroom software developers have never had to learn to
eat their own dogfood.
Actually, that is why many of the apps are the way they are. Their
developers made them that way because they do use them, often daily.
(Many open source apps came about because some programmer had an itch,
and scratched it.) It works fine for them, so why should they change it
to fit some "amateur's idea" of how the program should work?
--
David
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