The current situation is:
- The ALSA sequencer produces and consumes raw UMP only. Legacy input
is converted with the control mixer to UMP.
- All apps and plugins are made to consume and produce UMP.
- The control mixer can convert between UMP and MIDI when required.
- Legacy apps (pw-filter) will still receive MIDI1 events (converted by
the control mixer).
- Helper functions to convert UMP to and from MIDI can be used to ease
implementation when legacy MIDI is still required.
Using UMP natively over raw MIDI has some advantages:
- Transparent support for MIDI2 hardware and the new MIDI2 features
such as increased resolution for events, microtonal support, etc..
- Easy to convert between legacy MIDI and UMP
- Large SysEx can be fragmented properly.
- Fixed size messages are easier to parse and handle.
