10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
6:31 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Paul Davis wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Brent
Busby<brent(a)keycorner.org> wrote:
No, actually it just sounded like Atte was trying to assess whether
debugging problems with MIDI i/o in the apps was worth doing anymore,
now that we have Jack connections within the software. I just wanted
developers to remember there are people still out there that care a lot
about outboard gear.
--
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+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
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+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Atte André Jensen wrote:
I have no idea what you imagine or find Linux to be lacking in terms
of "MIDI support" that would affect any of these devices, unless you
mean actual applications. Maybe it's all just a shitty old protocol
that is finally being replaced
by stuff like jack transport (that works very reliable, actually
precisely between renoise and ardour).
If you're speaking of MIDI, I have to agree about the actual protocol, but
we still can't do without it. I have a Roland Jupiter-8, an Oberheim OB-8,
an Ensoniq ESQ-1, and a Multimoog connected to MIDI via a CV/gate convertor.
There is currently no replacing the sound of these older synthesizers with
any softsynth I've ever heard, plus there is just something about old
classic synths.
For the sake of instruments like these, Linux needs good MIDI support! (It
would be nice for more current hardware to go with something that works over
gigabit ethernet and uses IP...much less problems I'd imagine...)