On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 10:46 -0800, Iain Duncan wrote: > Hey folks, what is the easiest way to deal with midi input in a jack > app? I'm confused by the difference in jack midi and alsa midi, > because I have two midi inputs, one is a usb input, so it appears at a > low level as an alsa device, but the other is the midi input on a > firewire unit, and it appears as a jack midi device. I'd like to make > sure that whatever I do is easy to port to other systems. Does it make > sense to use portmidi or rtmidi to get input or should I stick to the > jack api entirely?
Alsa ports will show up in jack if you use the -X option to the alsa driver, or the separate application a2jmidid. I recommend using the Jack API entirely. -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
