Re: MIDI Notation Software
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 01:01:40AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>
> I was looking at ALSA, and it doesn't quite have that capability. For
> example, it would be nice if I could link any of the sequencer's midi
> output to timidity/aRTs/octal/pd.
>
> Yes, one fine example would be "pd" packaged in Debian. It would
> benefit greatly from internal midi-routing mechanism. I want to be
> able to control it via "vkeybd" program ;)
>
I have been looking at the aRTs documentation, and it seems they plan
to provide a "generic audio server" (have a look at:
http://www.arts-project.org/doc/manual/index-11.html).
It seems they want to overcome some of the limitations of ESD and
Kaudioserver: " ... They [esd & kaudioserver] have no concepts for
management, interaction, synchronization, midi stuff, filters (or only
small parts implemented) ..."
aRTs seems to already address some of these issues.
>From the same page:
"aRts could in the long run become some DirectSound replacement for
the platforms it runs on, allowing multiple applications to interact
realtimely through a shared flow system."
It sounds great (but for the "in the long run" part). It deserves a
closer look.
>
> Midi tools and sound generators (?) are not very actively included
> into Debian. Maybe not many people were interested into it. I feel it
> is a very big shortcoming (because I am using Windows for music work).
>
Well, it's up to us ;)
Enrique.
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