Re: [Jack-Devel] Including RTP-MIDI in Jack for Linux
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Benoit <[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am one of the founder of KissBox company, and I am promoting RTP-MIDI a
> lot, since this is an open and free protocol (and also because we use it
> our products). I wrote the complete RTP-MIDI stack for our products, and we
> are getting more and more requests from people about a possible support
> under Linux.
> Right now, RTP-MIDI is supported under Mac OS (it's part of Mac OS since
> version 10.4) and under Windows (there is a free driver named rtpMIDI), but
> not yet under Linux.
>
> I looked first at the possibility to write a kernel driver to add MIDI
> ports to Linux (since RTP-MIDI is just transporting MIDI over Ethernet),
> but writing such a driver is clearly a too complex thing for me (I am a
> programmer, but I have to run KissBox in parallel, since we are only two in
> the company)
>
> I know Jack since a long time and I wrote some small applications using it
> (mainly for testing), and I thought first about an external application
> creating RTP-MIDI entry points and then talking to Jack, but finally, I
> think that it would be very interesting to include the RTP-MIDI support
> directly in Jack.
>
> So my question is mainly: would you be interested if I join the project in
> order to add RTP-MIDI support in Jack for the Linux platform? I will of
> course open my source code and offer it to the community (it's not the
> source code being used on the KissBox however, since we are using a
> microcontroller on which Linux can not run)
>
Benoit ,
somehow I missed this message (not sure how). We would certainly be happy
to see support for RTP MIDI on Linux, but I don't think that JACK is the
right place for it. It belongs in a standalone library or as an ALSA
component.
regards,
Paul Davis
ps. next time consider sending messages to jack-devel rather than
jack-devel-owner :)
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