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From: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
To: Kristian Amlie <kristian@amlie.name>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: How to add a new MIDI device to the usbaudio driver
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:38:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACTFLAOgoOdd9Y8fQGvLXjUntzwsMDN7KYtftExGCHeU8jMeHw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5631E1.7050400@amlie.name>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Kristian Amlie <kristian@amlie.name> wrote:
> One caveat I have discovered with the patch: If you keep the instrument
> plugged in, but reload the driver, then the driver gets out of sync with
> the MIDI messages and won't report any. This seems to be because, in the
> stream, the message type is cached and subsequent messages do not report
> what type of message they are unless they are switching to a new type
> (going from control message to note message, for example). You can reset
> the stream by manually generating MIDI messages of different types (turn
> the volume knob while pressing a few notes), or eventually the
> instrument will reset itself and send the type anyway. So it's not
> critical, but would be nice to fix. I'm not sure how to solve it though...

What you're seeing here is a general problem of the MIDI protocol that
cannot be fixed. If a receiver misses the running state update, it
can't do anything but wait for the next one.


Daniel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-25 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 10:52 How to add a new MIDI device to the usbaudio driver Kristian Amlie
2011-08-22 10:54 ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-22 11:40   ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-22 11:49     ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-23  7:35       ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-23  8:43         ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-23  9:03           ` Paul Menzel
2011-08-23  9:22             ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-23  9:42               ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-23 10:02                 ` Paul Menzel
2011-08-27 10:38                   ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-23  9:38     ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-08-23  9:42       ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-23 10:07       ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-23 10:16         ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-23 11:57           ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-23 12:20             ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-23 13:12               ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-23 13:16                 ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-23 13:28                   ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-23 13:44                     ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-24  8:09                       ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-24  8:32                         ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-24 10:14                           ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-24 10:29                             ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-24 13:14                               ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-24 13:18                                 ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-24 19:51                       ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-08-25 11:28                         ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-25 11:35                           ` [PATCH] Added support for Starr Labs USB MIDI devices Kristian Amlie
2011-08-25 12:20                             ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-25 13:40                               ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-26 11:24                                 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-08-25 12:38                           ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2011-08-24 11:44             ` How to add a new MIDI device to the usbaudio driver Clemens Ladisch
2011-08-24 12:05               ` Daniel Mack
2011-08-24 13:19               ` Kristian Amlie
2011-08-24 16:01                 ` Clemens Ladisch

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