Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server)

[josh]

Quoting Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <address@hidden>:
> I'm aware of your Jack MIDI driver for FluidSynth. It is included in 1.0.9,
> following the same design of other MIDI drivers. That is one of the problems
> and nuisances. Current Jack drivers in FluidSynth running independent Jack
> processes for audio and MIDI is against the goals of audio and MIDI pipelines
> being synchronized. Other synths have experienced the same nuisances
> recently :) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.users/56686/
> IMO, or FluidSynth becomes a fair Jack MIDI client, or it should drop the
> driver entirely.


Good to know!  It hadn't occurred to me that they would be  
unsynchronized at that point.  Will fix it.  Thanks for mentioning this.


> Returning to the subject, the goal of having audio and MIDI aligned may be
> sound for a soft synth like FluidSynth, or a DAW application like Ardour,
> where MIDI is subordinated and auxiliary regarding to audio. But, where is
> the advantage of Jack MIDI for a pure MIDI/Karaoke player like KMid?


If a user is already using Jack as their audio subsystem, it seems  
convenient to me to also use it for MIDI.  Same clients, same routing  
software, etc.  But yes, it does seem less useful when playing back  
pure MIDI files.


> Regards,
> Pedro


Regards,
Josh