[oss-devel] MIDI?

[Hannu Savolainen]

Zakhar Levchenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suspect that midi development will move from the dead point only if 
> some enthusiasts really try use new midi API, write software 
> synthesizers, sequencers using it or port exisiting programs. This 
> process should disclose varoius flaws in api (if such exist) and bugs 
> in drivers. Unfortunately nobody seems to care about that.
Actually MIDI and software synthesizers was the reason why I originally 
started developing OSS about 16 years ago. It's still interesting area 
of "just for fun" development.

However it looks like there is no real demand for MIDI. There are about 
100 Linux MIDI enthusiasts (who all use ALSA). That's all. Serious music 
business uses Win/Mac because these environments are two decades ahead 
of Linux in this area.

Best regards,

Hannu