[jazzplusplus-devel] Is this a good idea?

[D.B. M. <db...@ho...>]

Greetings,


I'll be doing a bit more on the docs tonight - I just want to put this thought
out here to make sure everyone agrees. (if you've read my earlier 'first draft'
posting, you'd have probably guessed I was headed tis way.. ;-)

In one section of the -debug page- text, I mention the fact that people in
the devel team have real MIDI hardware, but that a lot of current development
is being tested using softsynth instead.

On that same page, I also state that it might be of help to developers, if
people finding problems (with replay currently) using externally connected
MIDI equipment, to fallback to the softsynth position and try again, and 
report if that fixed their problem or not.

I'm conscious of hardware layers. What works correctly on the softsynth
path may not (yet) work when that extra layer is used to get I/O to that
externally connected MIDI hardware. If users fallback to softsynth in these
early testing days, it will A>effectively test their current jazz installation
against current development trends and models, B> possibly give us an
early heads up that issues do exist at this level, so creating a pointer for
the TODO list in that happy future you see me talking about a lot ;-)

(and there will be issues here, I'll guarantee it...but I'll voice those thoughts
later in their own threads}

To finish off some of the documentation 'in context' , I'm assuming the
following things as current 'defacto testing standards' -

1. On linux, the softsynth setup using the jack/fluidsynth/qsynth method
is the current default for testing.

2. On Mac, it's the same.

3. On Windows, the softsynth setup facilitated by shipped soundcard
drivers in conjunction with the Windows midi/sound API is the default.


As always, let me know, comments, thoughts, etc etc etc...


Regards,


Donald B



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