[PLUG] adventures in MIDI

[Floyd Johnson <fljohnson3@isp.com>]

After misfortunes with various Linux music-composition programs (Nted 
kept forgetting notes and rests during playback, and lacked 
"articulations", Rosegarden declared my laptop with Fluidsynth "not a 
sane setup", Canorus was buggy and required too much to compile), I 
nosed around in libasound.

It took a bit of trial and error to truly understand the online 
documentation, but I was able to write a PoC that did an arpeggio.

Two weeks forward, if that long, I am approaching a working prototype of 
a far-less-absentminded composition program written with GtkMM. From 
where I sit, GNU C++ is not what it was in 1992.

Depending on how this works out, what I've learned about "talking to 
sequencers" and/or "practical GtkMM" could be material for at least a 
Lightning talk.





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