On 12/15/17 02:30, Sid wrote: > That's good that Jack isn't needed. Jack isn't needed in theory, but OSS drivers for many popular sound devices don't support midi. PCI audio devices generally don't support midi, only USB ones do. So if you want midi, you have to go with soft-midi (ex. Jack+fluidsynth). Jack is a very powerful audio server, though a bit buggy. Yuri