On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:24:51 -0500, Chris Caudle wrote: >On Mon, June 18, 2018 12:57 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:18:11 -0500, Chris Caudle wrote: >>>On Mon, June 18, 2018 8:55 am, Victor A. Stoichita wrote: >>>> using -Xalsarawmidi combined with a2jmidid. I'm still not sure >>>> whether this is the same as -Xseq or -Xraw. >>> >>>I think -Xraw is an alias for -Xalsarawmidi, but in any case you >>>should not use either. >> >> Wrong! Better use alsarawmidi! > >The current manpage for jackd does not mention the term "alsarawmidi" >at all, only seq or raw. Searching the current source tree for jackd >v2 I found a description in JackALSARawMidiDriver.cpp that it was an >"Alternative ALSA raw MIDI backend." >I do not see a way to instantiate that separately, however, the >command line processing has only entries for "seq" and "raw" as >arguments to the ALSA driver. > >In any case, the correct answer is still to not use any -X argument at >all, let a2midid control the ALSA MIDI data and act as a jack client, >at least for jackd v2. No, if you want to reduce MIDI jitter when using the MIDI hardware IOs, use -Xalsarawmidi! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
