[fpc-pascal] Re: Linux sound (especially MIDI) programming: ALSA?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

leledumbo wrote:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpalsa/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/humus/

Thanks for those. Also 
http://perso.wanadoo.es/plcl/alsapas/alsapas-en.html so as I thought 
there appears to be (at least) two sets of ALSA bindings: fpalsa and 
alsapas.

Noted HuMuS, but that appears to be for PortAudio. However using that as 
a seed I get to http://breakoutbox.de/pascal/pascal.html#PortAudio which 
claims to include PortMidi support- this is supposedly cross-platform 
but requires an additional library which might not be available on all 
distreaux. Also MIDI is very much the "poor cousin" and operating 
support is patchy, so since I've got ALSA working I'm reluctant to risk 
breaking anything.

Since running on anything other than Linux is not a significant 
priority, I think I'll probably start off with by doing a comparison of 
fpalsa and alsapas, and writing code that will support either if 
possible. If I could also code to support PortMidi that would be a 
bonus, but by no means essential: I'm trying to knock together a MIDI 
transposer for my own use, and testbed some techniques for another project.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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