Hmm, if there are problems with Csound and MIDI (of which I am not aware), we need to fix them. Can you provide an example?
Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:24 PM Subject: Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO > On Jan 19, 2008 3:40 AM, victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hannu's opinions are just that: opinions. The fact is that Linux >> audio developers have been using alsa much more than OSS. > > Hannu argues his points well. Do not discount him > simply because he created OSS. > > Linux audio developers have not been using ALSA. > They have been using ugly wrapper libraries to deal > with the incompatible mess we've gotten into. Those > libraries support OSS as well. > > There are far more OSS-only programs than ALSA-only > programs. This is partly because writing a native ALSA > program is overcomplicated, and partly because OSS is > portable to *BSD and Solaris. > >> Are you saying that Csound is not appropriate for the XO? > > As a general audio system, yes. Csound may have some > legitimate use on the XO. Shoving normal audio through > Csound is bad. Using Csound to generate synthetic audio > might be OK, though I note that Csound seems to have > some incompatibilities with the MIDI standard. The XO > should be able to function as both MIDI hardware roles, > over both USB and IP. (the XO has one USB port that can > act as a gadget-side device; MIDI has been standardized > over both USB and IP)
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