Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > This seems unlikely to me. Accessing the MIDI stuff in ALSA doesn't suffer > from > the same "exclusive access" locks that a soundcard usually does.
If I remember correctly, ALSA sequencer devices are multiclient, but the raw devices are exclusive. Also, I recall situations where opening a MIDI device in raw mode prevented the ALSA sequencer counterpart from being available for use. Which makes sense (at least for output), as raw devices don't have any functionality of merging events from raw device client and ALSA sequencer client. I'm almost sure it affects MIDI input as well. The best way to check it would be running JACK in -X raw mode, and checking if MIDI input in Hydrogen (the ALSA sequencer version) still works. I bet it doesn't, but don't take my word for it. Krzysztof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
