Hallo, Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:12:24AM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
Is it out of the question simply to use the OSS MIDI API? That should be the default, and it's much less buggy than the ALSA one. (Apparently, though, there's sometimes a good reason to use teh ALSA one instead, I remember vaguely.)
I think that the good reason to use ALSA is that OSS is even more deprecated than [namecanvas], in that everyone is switching away from it as fast as possible.
Pd is not really using the "OSS Midi API" anyway. It's using raw midi devices when started as -oss, and these raw midi devices are available in OSS and in pure ALSA as well, in ALSA they are called e.g. /dev/snd/midiC0D0
"pd -alsa" is using the ALSA sequencer API, the equivalent with OSS would be /dev/sequencer, but Pd never supported that. ALSA sequencer makes interconnecting applications much easier that with raw midi devices. (I once wrote a howto to explain the latter, it's overly complicated.) I've never used sysex, though.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht