On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk>
wrote:
  From this I think we can conclude that direct use of
ALSA is far from dead
 yet,
 and for MIDI it's neck and neck with jack. I hope this will be useful to
 all
 the Linux audio devs out there.
 If I can remember, I might try this again in a years time.
 
I still use ALSA Midi for some older apps that don't support Jack MIDI yet,
but that number is getting smaller and smaller.
--
Brett W. McCoy -- 
http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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