[Bug 252186] [NEW PORT] audio/portmidi: Library for real time input and output of MIDI data

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252186

--- Comment #2 from Timothy Beyer <beyert@cs.ucr.edu> ---
(In reply to Be from comment #1)
I wasn't aware of an ALSA backend to PortMidi, which I will investigate.

I personally like sndio as a library, as it is extremely BSD friendly, both in
terms of licensing as well as code examples that already worked.  I was able to
get this ported very quickly, which made me like it right away, but it still
may be worth trying the ALSA backend since that is likely more widely
supported.

I agree that embedding sndio inside of PortMIDI is odd, and there is a lot of
duplicate functionality between both libraries, so given ALSA's wider use base,
that may have some advantages.  I need to do a more detailed comparison between
the two libraries to see if there are any performance issues.

Ultimately, as long as it performs well, I just want to be able to use MIDI
devices on FreeBSD, and don't care how it is accomplished.

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