On 0901T1838, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > > > On the linux side, there is jack-keyboard which has two manuals and > > > everything > > > > Two and a half. ;-) > > The man page, the web site, and something else that counts as the half > one? ;-) I've misread 'manuals' as 'octaves'. I've never thought about 'two manuals' in church organ terminology. > Seriously, I think he talks using the church organ terminology to describe the > four rows of keys mapped as notes in your jack-keyboard compared to vmpk, > where the default (built-in) key map uses only the two lower rows, like > vkeybd. Also like vkeybd, in vmpk the user can customize the alphanumeric > layout mapping the upper rows of keys if he wish so. Some provided map > layouts use all key rows. Being vkeybd (and vmpk) keyboard mappings > configurable by the user, I find it surprising your claim that jack-keyboard > has a "much better keyboard mapping", when it is hard-coded in the program. > Flexibility is not desirable for you? Sure it is. But I prefer things that are simple and "just work", without need for configuration. At the time I wrote the docs, jack-keyboard had much better _default_ keyboard mapping. > On the other hand, the key event handling code in vmpk may be not very > time-efficient, and may be related to the observed delays. I will try to > measure and optimize it, although I think this problem may be neglected > compared to the big hardware problems of the alphanumeric keyboards that > prevent some key combinations to be pressed together at all. Anyway, the > piano keyboard emulators aren't real music instruments. Is anybody going to > perform a real concert with one of them? No. But they are useful if all you have with you is a laptop and you are bored and want to experiment a little. Also, an important purpose for jack-keyboard is testing if JACK works properly. ;-) [..] -- If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my head, or me and my body? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
