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Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
>         I'm starting now work on ALSA sequencer code. I'm merging now
> proposal from Frank van de Pol with other ideas. Looks like major problem
> is with time synchronization and timestamp format.

Are you going to do this in kernel space? It looks to me that this
would be feasible to do in user space, with a realtime scheduled
daemon. Ok, it might need some work on POSIX.1b Timers, but
this would be far more general than MIDI/Sequencer only...

Another thing: now I guess the PCM/Mixer interfaces are pretty stable.
Could you document them? I'd then add support for them into my
PCI soundcard drivers.

NB: I've just put an S3 SonicVibes Noise Source (pardon SoundCard :-))
driver onto my web page, 
http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/sonicvibes.html).

Tom

