Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > I'd like to route all keyboards into one alsa device and then make > csound read from there. I used to use virmidi for that, but > unfortunately that's unavailable under the demudi > 2.6.12-3-multimedia-686 kernel. So I tried using midithrough for the > same purpose and although I only have one keyboard with me it seems to > work. So my questions are: > > 1) Can I expect to reliably mix alsa clients by routing them to the > midi-though client and reading from it's output? Yes. > 2) Is there a cleaner way of doing this? No. > 3) What's the conceptual difference between virmidi and midi-through? The purpose of Virmidi is to create OSS devices (dev/midi*) for a sequencer port. If you don't need that, just use Midi Through. HTH Clemens
