Re: [linux-audio-dev] a question re: the MIDI spec

2004-09-11 Thread Martijn Sipkema
[...] MIDI streams need a reliable transport with guaranteed bandwidth. If USB can't provide this, then it is not really suitable for MIDI, but I'm not saying it is unusable, just that it may perform worse then traditional serial multiport MIDI interfaces. USB can provide this just

Re: [linux-audio-dev] a question re: the MIDI spec

2004-09-11 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:40:05PM +0100, Martijn Sipkema wrote: [...] The problem here is that class compliant devices suffer bad timing because they use bulk transfers for MIDI data. The standard for MIDI over FireWire is much better. [...] Is the timing really that bad? I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] a question re: the MIDI spec

2004-09-11 Thread Martijn Sipkema
[...] The problem here is that class compliant devices suffer bad timing because they use bulk transfers for MIDI data. The standard for MIDI over FireWire is much better. [...] Is the timing really that bad? I don't even think a firewire 8x8 rackmount MIDI

[linux-audio-dev] Re: realtime-lsm in the kernel

2004-09-11 Thread torbenh
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:42:35PM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway if the author does not object, I would be willing to spearhead a drive to get this into the kernel. I am sure they will approve as soon as 100s linux audio users voice their

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: realtime-lsm in the kernel

2004-09-11 Thread torbenh
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:29:11AM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any known issues with the code that the kernel guys might bring up? Seems like it has been stable for a while. The only thing I notices was that the indentation doesn't follow the

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] tuneit 0.2 -- ALSA and JACK instrument tuner

2004-09-11 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. Here is it, the first public release of tuneit, a command line instrument tuner for ALSA and JACK. tuneit was written as a command line alternative to the two existing guitar tuner programs for GUIs (gtkguitune and qjacktuner). It offers two different fundamental frequency detection

Re: [linux-audio-dev] a question re: the MIDI spec

2004-09-11 Thread John Check
On Saturday 11 September 2004 01:28 am, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 23:00, John Check wrote: MIDI streams need a reliable transport with guaranteed bandwidth. If USB can't provide this, then it is not really suitable for MIDI, but I'm not saying it is unusable, just that it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: realtime-lsm in the kernel

2004-09-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 12:09, Jack O'Quin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i think they will object the allcaps option. but that one could be left out. the other options only open doors for DoS attacks. That's a good point. What if we made allcaps conditional, based on another

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: realtime-lsm in the kernel

2004-09-11 Thread Jack O'Quin
Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't a DoS attack also the worst case scenario with allcaps? Or am I missing something? No, it's not. There is a scenario where an intruder uses SETPCAP to deny root programs access to resources they need (like system logs). I don't know all the