A Diumenge 23 Novembre 2003 20:02, Frank Barknecht va escriure:
> Hallo,
>
> David Garcia Garzon hat gesagt: // David Garcia Garzon wrote:
> > - Which is the use that can have rawmidi that sequencer don't? It is only
> > a backward compatibility interface?
>
> Rawmidi devices ("/dev/snd/midiCxCx") are compatibility interfaces,
> but still in wide use even with "modern" software (Ardour, ...)
>
> So there is no use that rawmidi has, but that sequencer hasn't because
> raw midi is part of the ALSA sequencer internally (I think...). It's
> just that some software cannot use the sequencer directly.Ok, so i will only talk about it as a legacy interface superseded by seq that controls midi events flow. > > - What is 'virmidi' for? (The wiki tells a lot of things on how install > > it, but why i should install it?) > > The ALSA sequencer controls all midi devices: real devices and > sequencer ports created by software like MusE or aseqview. You can > make connections inside the sequencer between the devices, but without > virmidi you only have raw devices that map to hardware. With virmidi > you also get virtual raw devices that can be connected into the > sequencer system. I don't know if i understood what you say. Do you mean that virmidi ports are simply like four pipes that send what they receive? Why should i want such thing if i can connect any seq device multiple times? > So if you have software, that only handles raw midi devices (Ardour, > Pd,...) and you want to make sequencer connections with aconnect, > *then* you need snd-virmidi cards. But *only* then do you need them. > For example you will not need snd-virmidi, if you want to connect MusE > and fluidsynth, because both can use the ALSA sequencer directly. Oh, yes. It seems that my understanding of the previous part was wrong. Maybe is that one right: 'Virmidi is a seq wrapper on rawmidi, that provides seq compatibility to drivers that only support rawmidi.' > ciao -- David García Garzón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: 034 93 542 21 99 Music Technology Group, Institut Universitari de l'Audiovisual Universitat Pompeu Fabra ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
