Re: [PD-dev] alsa midi

Hallo, Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:

I think it would be wise to keep the OSS for a while... it's more likely to work with non-linux flavors of unix (BSD, for instance) that might someday become important. Also, I don't think in Alsa you can deliberately output non-standard MIDI messages, which you occasionally need.

I agree here: rawmidi access can come in handy sometimes. ALSA still has rawmidi devices as /dev/snd/midiCxDx. It might be useful in the long run to make Pd accept names for rawmidi devices, not only numbers, but for now, the numbering is okay, I don't think ALSA will drop the /dev/midi device names in the near future. ;)

Ciao