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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Sequencer timestamps for soft synth app
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:02:01 +0200
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Glyn Adgie wrote:
> I cannot find an ALSA function for getting a timestamp.

If you have a running queue, you can get timestamped events delivered to
your port by enabling it with snd_seq_port_info_set_timestamping() and
snd_seq_port_info_set_timestamp_queue().  (The events don't actually
need to come through that queue.)  See the source code of arecordmidi.


HTH
Clemens