On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:31:56 -0500 Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Thanks to Maarten I've got involved in implementing ALSA support for > >Rosegarde n 4. I've been browsing the ALSA API and patching together > >a driver layer to give u s a general framework we can share between > >ALSA and aRts. The ALSA Instrument API looks promising but so far I > >can't find much on it on the mailing list archive or on the web. Any > >clues for an overview? > > AFAIK, it has never been fully developed (and certainly is not used by > more than a handful of test programs). You should be talking to Josh > Green and others on LAD who are interested in defining how this should > work more fully. There are a lot of tricky issues that arise from the > distinctions between external MIDI devices and software-implemented > MIDI devices, including those with hardware support (such the as the > synths on many current consumer audio interfaces). I don't think these > have ever really been worked out within ALSA - I could, as usual, be > wrong. > > -- I'm interested in extending the api only for retrieval of info about bank names/info, patch names/info and controller names. Info would default to some midi standard defaults. What do you have in mind for an instrument api? Juan Linietsky > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
