>I'm over with the development of chionic, on it's first release. I have >to sadly accept that as much as it works the way I want, I cant >communicate my sequencer to chionic in the way I need (because Jackd is >too poor to do it the proper way). [... ] >CHIONIC IS DEAD UNTIL SOMEONE DECIDES TO PICK IT UP AND CONTINUE >DEVELOPMENT (or until Jackd matures enough.. yeah right :) this style of complaining about the lack of MIDI in jackd is irritating, to say the least. jack was not written with the goal of handling non-streaming byte-oriented protocols. despite that, ian esten managed to add MIDI support very rapidly (less than a week, including 2 complete reimplementations). the reason jackd doesn't have MIDI support is that ian went to work for a rather large commercial audio software+hardware company, which raised difficult issues about our ability to accept his code. it has taken a long time (too long) to get an official and unambiguous release from the company to make it clear that they have absolutely no claims on jack-midi. if jack-midi is so important to you, take the work that ian post to LAD (which is unambigously clear of any claims because it was written before he started working there) and fix up the issues with it. otherwise, please quit whining as if it was someone's job to provide you with the facilities you want. jack will support MIDI, its just hard to predict the timescale right now. --p
