[seq24-users] seq24/alsa sequencer architecture question

[Gareth E. <gde...@bl...>]

Hi there,

I've been studying the seq24 code with a view to modifying the code for 
my own application and I've got a question about the way it is written - 
I'm an ALSA newbie so please forgive if it's a stupid question.

The output thread seems to take great care of its timing accuracy in 
setting it's sleep time in the main timing loop (so much that there is 
an command line option to increase the thread priority, presumably to 
increase this accuracy) - but the alsa sequencer API seems to look after 
this timing for you. I guess I'm not seeing why seq24 needs to go to the 
lengths it does when it could just supply the events to the sequencer 
API and then relax?

If the answer is "go away and read the API docs properly so you 
understand them", then that's fine <G>

Cheers
Gareth