Re: [PATCH] add aplaymidi & arecordmidi utils

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:19:36 GMT,
Will wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>Will wrote:
> >> I wonder whether drvmidi actually does correctly restore controller and sysex
> >> when you move during MIDI playback.  I haven't studied the drvmidi code in
> >> detail.  I know the sound quality always seems to be correct
> >> even when you move forwards and backwards very often in a piece with
> >> lots of sysex and controller settings.
> >
> >it does.  when skipping forward/backward, it will send all necessary
> >ctl/sysex messages from the beginning.  i implemented in this way
> >because it's designed only for the internal MIDI wavetable, which can
> >handle many events immediately.  that's not for general MIDI devices.
> 
> That's great.  How easy would it be to port drvmidi to the ALSA sequencer?

a bit touch.  it's a quite old code.

> It's a fantastic little player.  It has the very useful functionality of
> a GUI player (moving forwards and backwards during playback).
> The only problem is it's for the OSS sequencer...

sorry, i have no time for that...
patches are always welcome, though :)

--
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org


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