Well I'm glad I asked now! Rather than waste (more) time I can move on to something else instead. Personally I only use MIDI for input (and use soft-synths), but I do know of people who have loads of MIDI gear. Thus it would be quite difficult for me to test. I guess it's one of those ideas I've had where I think "wow, this would be cool", when in fact it's just me wanting to be over-complicated ;) -Andrew Michael Gerdau wrote: > [snipped] >> And if it's a completely pointless idea, let me know also ;) > > Ok, you asked for it... ;) > > I'm sorry to say that but I personally think it's a completely > pointless idea. > > - the raw count of external MIDI equipment used in professional > music productions has passed its high watermark years ago. Most > external gear is replaced by softsynths these days [this is to > say the requirement for large racks of external gear which needs > to be controlled via MIDI is diminishing] > - IMO if you are interested in tight MIDI timing you use a multiport > MIDI interface and won't chain snyths on a single port. Cost is not > an issue because multiport interfaces are cheap these days (or at > least WAY cheaper than decent external synths or other gear). > - why would there be demand to switch channels dynamically in the > first place anyway ? > Ignoring the additional delays (and the resulting timing issues) > introduced by the suggested switching procedure I don't see why > you'd need to dynamically reallocate ports and channels. > A single port gives you 16 channel, 2-/4-/8-port interfaces give > you 32/64/128 channel for external MIDI. > How much equipment are you going to connect ? > And how complex will your music be that this isn't sufficient ? > Last not least why don't you daisychain two or more of the better > 8-port interfaces ? -- w/r to tight timing a better idea anyway ! > > Last not least I never used the Windows MIDI mapper and to the day > I think it is useful only for very special cases. > > Best, > Michael _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
