That is great news! It would be nice, however, if JACK devs would also post such important announcements to the consortium list for a proper news blurb to be included on that site as well, especially given that JACK is a member project of the consortium... Best wishes, Ico > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-audio-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-audio- > user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lars Luthman > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:42 PM > To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Status of JACK midi sync? > > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:21 -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > > JACK MIDI is in JACK 0.102.20. > > > > Cool! Now the next logical set of questions is: > > > > 1) How stable/reliable is it? > > Pretty reliable. I haven't made it crash since 0.102.5. > > > 2) Are there any apps that support it? > > The only ones I know of that support it officially in released versions > (please reply if you know of more) are Ghostess (Sean Bolton's DSSI > host) and Dino (my sequencer). There is a patch for Zyn and the SVN > versions of Ingen (Om) and Specimen supports it. Connecting JACK MIDI > ports works fine in Patchage and QJackCtl, although they appear in the > "Audio" tab in QJackCtl. Dave Robillard also worked on MIDI in Ardour > during the summer, so I suppose there is some kind of support there too. > > > 3) Does such support require a major rewrite? > > Depends on the software. If you are doing a lot of MIDI processing in > another thread it may take some hacking, but if you just read ALSA MIDI > events in another thread and pass them to the JACK thread using a > ringbuffer or something similar it's easy - just get rid of the extra > thread and the ringbuffer. I wrote the patches for Specimen and > ZynAddSubFX, and for Specimen (which pretty much does that) it was > really easy, while it was a bit trickier for Zyn (which does a lot of > MIDI processing outside the audio thread). > > -- > Lars Luthman - please encrypt any email sent to me if possible > PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x04C77E2E > Fingerprint: FCA7 C790 19B9 322D EB7A E1B3 4371 4650 04C7 7E2E
