On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, federico wrote:
I don't see any changes from my local version. last time I checked midiout functionality with alsa_midi, note and controllers worked ok, but system exclusive were not transmitted. in fact I discovered that sys_alsa_putmidibyte never gets called (!). in addition I am not sure if a message can be sent to alsa byte-per-byte instead of passing the entire buffer, i should look at the docs...
I fear that in order to make midiout work with ALSA one has to implement a midi parser and send the single events. Thats why Miller says its "wrong-headed".
Somone should really try to figure out how raw midi streams can be sent via the ALSA sequencer interface, maybe there's a way.
Cheers,
Guenter
It looks like alsa's MIDI implementation is wrong-headed (insists that outgoing MIDI be formatted by the application) and would be a pain to work around to get midiout to work correctly.
I do not understand this very well. could you write some more details about this?
Probably the thing I should do right now is to print out a warning message about it when people try to use it...
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-- ciao Federico
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