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OK, so here's a question that may seem inflammatory but let me assure you it

is by no means my intention to add fuel to the fire. Rather I would like to

clarify some of the salient bits for myself (and hopefully others). So,

please do enlighten me...
If, dmix/snoop is seen as not real-time safe and as such cannot be used

concurrently with JACK (I know that one would probably not want to use it

that way anyhow since in pro-audio last thing you need is "you got mail"

ding in the middle of your recording session, but I don't think that

dmix/snoop were designed with this in mind but were rather quick fixes to

the lack of hardware mixing for average Joe user who only needs dings and

beeps, which all in all still makes it only a half-solution to the problem,

no?) and we have pulseaudio to in part solve this headache while still

allowing JACK to access hw practically directly with no added latency

overhead or loss of real-time safe operation (at least that is what my

current understanding of the pulseaudio project is)
and
If ALSA sequencer is subpar to Midishare (something I cannot attest to as

I've not had an opportunity to mess with it, so I am making an assertion on

what I've learned from the existing discussion, again please correct me if I

am wrong)
then
Why bother with either dmix/snoop and/or ALSA sequencer when they appear not

to be complete solutions?
Wouldn't it be better for ALSA devs to have more time to focus on making

sure that drivers and supporting operations are working so that we don't

have to worry about Freebob vs. ALSA vs. OSS vs. whatever (I know, this is a

bad analogy to draw given the different scope of the Freebob or what is now

known as ffado project but hopefully you will understand what I am alluding

to here), and have pulseaudio and Midishare take over the dmix/snoop and

sequencer respectively? (again, please note that I have no idea whether

Midishare can do this without the ALSA sequencer, so I am here speculating a

bit).
In other words, provided that my conjectures are true, I could see ALSA

becoming simply an API to access the soundcard and everything else being

moved out of the ALSA which IMHO could help spur some of the ostensibly

bogged down aspects of Linux audio experience.
Any enlightenment here is appreciated.
Best wishes,
Ico 
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