[alsa-devel] ALSA MIDI exclusive mode ?

[happy musicmaker]

Figured it out. The so called "exclusive" mode is because of the
application opening the port in "raw mode"
So far I only used sequencer mode in my code and this did not bump into
this situation.


On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:34 PM, happy musicmaker <happy.musicmaker at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> I ready somewhere that some applications, like Bitwig, allocate(?) MIDI
> ports in "exclusive" mode so that other application cannot connect to the
> MIDI ports. I used Bitwig and confirmed  that after starting Bitwig in
> qjackctrl you cannot connect any of the MIDI write/read ports. ( qjackctrl
> MIDI option  is set to "none") I could not find any documentation on such
> "exclusive" feature though ?
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