From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: rawmidi Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:13:32 -0400 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1097262812.1442.24.camel@krustophenia.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: pat@dumaisnet.ca Cc: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 11:26, Patrick Dumais wrote: > I noticed that some drivers tend to send "batch" note-on commands. I mean: > instead of sending 90h,01h,7Fh everytime, it sends a first 90,01,7f then > just 02,7f etc... It sends the noteon command only once and assumes that > your application will set itself in a "noteon receive" mode. This is very > annoying because my application expects to receive a command byte each > time. the emu10k1 driver doesn't do that, but snd-virmidi does. > > I'm using virmidi because I want 2 apps to read my sbLive midi port. I > aconnect this port to 2 virmidi ports then my apps read from those ports. Why is this even necessary with ALSA? On Windows multiple apps can just read from the same physical MIDI port. Is this a feature? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl