Hallo, Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:12:24AM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: > > Is it out of the question simply to use the OSS MIDI API? That should > > be the default, and it's much less buggy than the ALSA one. (Apparently, > > though, there's sometimes a good reason to use teh ALSA one instead, I > > remember vaguely.) > > I think that the good reason to use ALSA is that OSS is even more > deprecated than [namecanvas], in that everyone is switching away from it > as fast as possible.
Pd is not really using the "OSS Midi API" anyway. It's using raw midi devices when started as -oss, and these raw midi devices are available in OSS and in pure ALSA as well, in ALSA they are called e.g. /dev/snd/midiC0D0 "pd -alsa" is using the ALSA sequencer API, the equivalent with OSS would be /dev/sequencer, but Pd never supported that. ALSA sequencer makes interconnecting applications much easier that with raw midi devices. (I once wrote a howto to explain the latter, it's overly complicated.) I've never used sysex, though. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
