On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:18 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > I'm developing a driver for a device that's like an MPU output port, but > > some extra hardware registers need to be written to when note on/off > > messages arrive. Since the MIDI stream must be interpreted and hardware > > needs to be accessed directly I think I need to develop an ALSA > > sequencer kernel client. > > Currently, a sequencer client is only used for devices where all MIDI > messages must be interpreted by the driver and where the device doesn't > ever see them. The USB MIDI and serial MIDI drivers do their own > parsing. > > This doesn't mean that you shouldn't use a sequencer client. > I think I'm going to use a rawmidi device and snoop the MIDI stream for note on/note off. It does not look too hard, and unlike the sequencer is documented. > > I remember seeing some docs for developing this kind of thing, > > I'm sure there never were such docs. > > > but can't find them - can someone point me in the right direction? > > Use the Source, Luke^H^H^Hee: the USB MIDI driver was a sequencer client > before October 2002. Thanks for the info. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
