On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:40:01 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > > Well, no, because for advanced instruments (eg. a full featured > > sampler) we have jack. > > Well, yes - modulo a sample accurate event system that deals with > stuff beyond MIDI.
OSC? > > > Or we just design an event system and strap that onto JACK as > > > well as a stripped version of LADSPA. :-) > > > > I think its reasonable to expect a jack app to be able to natively > > understand MIDI/OSC/CV/whatever. > > Sure - but how do I connect a sequencer to it, and how do I make it > all stay in sync? I think people will soon expect timing and reliable > of softsynths to be *better* than h/w synths + MIDI; not worse. Well, alsa-seq, DMIDI or OSC, the linux MIDI sequencers I've seen support alsa-seq, and some support OSC. All of these will give better timing than hardware MIDI IIRC. - Steve
