New sequencer

To overcome these disadvantages ALSA will bring a new architecture for scheduling and dispatching MIDI and MIDI oriented events within the Linux sound driver. Note that this is still in the brainstorming phase, and has yet to be developed.

Some of the ideas presented here are inspired by the MidiShare "MIDI operating system", which exists for Apple mac's.

This new sequencer is intended as a replacement for /dev/music and /dev/sequencer. For compatibility with older applications these old interfaces can be emulated if needed.

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