[Jazzplusplus-user] jazz++ was/is the best

[Stacey C. <st...@ar...>]

I just now checked and found out that jazz++ is going through a
revival.  I'm one of the customers for the original Linux
distribution back in the previous millenium.  For me Jazz++ was the
only usable MIDI sequencing app for Linux.  All others that I
tried didn't use the MIDI file format as the native format, rather
they "imported" MIDI, and for the application I used that meant
they threw away or munged SysEx data that was critical to getting
my Yamaha CS1x configured and sequencing correctly.  Every single
Yamaha "Blue Book" demo MIDI file (they're fairly complex) ran via
jazz++, and that just wasn't the case for any other Linux sequencing
software.

Also Jazz++ could run on my meagure AMD 300MHz system.  More recent
Linux sequencers have massive binary sizes, huge memory and CPU
requirements and bog down to the point where even the simplest
playback cannot occur, let alone real sequence creation and playback.

Anyways, "well done" to the team reviving the best MIDI sequencer
I ever found for Linux.

Stacey

p.s. You might want to consider a "view the archives" URL for the
user maillist (not just the devel maillist) on
http://jazzplusplus.sourceforge.net/mailinglist/.