[oss-devel] MIDI?

[François Revol]

> > 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.
> 

Indeed the only MIDI user I know uses OSX...
Now of course if you don't try you'll never get them back :)

François.