[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/5] ALSA: firewire-tascam: add MIDI functionality

[Stefan Richter]

On Oct 12 Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> Although TASCAM FireWire series has physical controls, this patchset
> doesn't support them. I think some facilities are required to enable this
> functionality:
>  * handling MIDI messages on virtual MIDI ports by this driver
>  * handling status and control messages in isochronous packet by this
>    driver

As a side note, AFAIR, RME devices encapsulate status in their isochronous
stream too... or was it MOTU?

>  * parsing the status and control messages by userspace application
>  * supporting assignment of physical controls to MIDI ports by userspace
>    application
>  * turn on/off LEDs on device by userspace application
> 
> These work are apparently beyond my current effort.
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Stefan Richter
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