From: Juan Linietsky <coding@reduz.com.ar>
To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: ALSA instrument API
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:13:19 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020404161319.5d5062bf.coding@reduz.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204041431.JAA13020@renoir.op.net>
On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:31:56 -0500
Paul Davis <pbd@op.net> wrote:
> >Thanks to Maarten I've got involved in implementing ALSA support for
> >Rosegarde n 4. I've been browsing the ALSA API and patching together
> >a driver layer to give u s a general framework we can share between
> >ALSA and aRts. The ALSA Instrument API looks promising but so far I
> >can't find much on it on the mailing list archive or on the web. Any
> >clues for an overview?
>
> AFAIK, it has never been fully developed (and certainly is not used by
> more than a handful of test programs). You should be talking to Josh
> Green and others on LAD who are interested in defining how this should
> work more fully. There are a lot of tricky issues that arise from the
> distinctions between external MIDI devices and software-implemented
> MIDI devices, including those with hardware support (such the as the
> synths on many current consumer audio interfaces). I don't think these
> have ever really been worked out within ALSA - I could, as usual, be
> wrong.
>
> --
I'm interested in extending the api only for retrieval of info about
bank names/info, patch names/info and controller names. Info
would default to some midi standard defaults.
What do you have in mind for an instrument api?
Juan Linietsky
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-04 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-04 9:30 RTC timer questions Maarten de Boer
2002-04-04 11:21 ` ALSA instrument API Richard Bown
2002-04-04 14:31 ` Paul Davis
2002-04-04 19:13 ` Juan Linietsky [this message]
2002-04-05 6:41 ` Richard Bown
2002-04-08 7:59 ` RTC timer questions, reposting Maarten de Boer
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