[alsa-devel] ALSA MIDI interface - plugin

[Pharaoh .]

On Feb 15, 2008 10:23 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:

> At Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:54:28 +0530,
> Pharaoh . wrote:
> >
> > Now, I have to support rawmidi interface also. Is it possible to write a
> > userspace
> > plugin for making MIDI work? Where can I get sample code etc?
>
> It's possible, but so far, no external plugin framework is implemented
> for rawmidi.  The external plugins are available only for PCM and
> control APIs.  I guess it'd be relatively easy to add the external
> rawmidi plugins, though.
>
> Another possibility is to write an ALSA sequencer client, and load
> snd-virmidi driver.  Then you can connect to a rawmidi device as you
> like.
>
> Thanks Takashi, I am not sure I understood this fully..Can you point me to
some sample
code or relevant documentation.

-Pharaoh.


> Takashi
>