13 May
2010
13 May
'10
3:50 p.m.
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
For example, when implementing a MIDI CC the flow of
my code will be
something like this:
[3 bytes MIDI] -----(ALSA)----> snd_seq_event_t
snd_seq_event_t ----(GABE)----> [3 bytes MIDI] + timestamp
I would say that this is undermining the ways it's trying to help me.
I could drop the seq API and use the raw MIDI API, but then I lose the
time-stamp. (Unless I've misunderstood something somewhere....)
In contrast, the JACK MIDI API is something like this:
[3 bytes MIDI] ----(JACK)----> [3 bytes MIDI] + timestamp
Which is beautiful. :-)
I don't know if it's relevant, but last year I struggled with trying to
sync Ardour to MTC from my Akai MPC2000, and I never succeeded until I
switched to using Jack Midi in QJackCtl. This all might really explain
why that happened... I couldn't get it to work at all with just Alsa
Midi.
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