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From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Who is interested in /dev/midi and /dev/synth ?
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Luigi Rizzo:
 |My audio driver does not support /dev/midi and /dev/synth at the
 |moment. There are stubs for them though, and one (/dev/midi) is
 |probably trivial to implement. Things are slightly more complex for
 |/dev/synth since there are different synthesis devices on different
 |hardware. Besides, timidity probably does a nice job at least for the
 |casual user.
 |
 |I am wondering if there is anyone who really needs /dev/midi and
 |/dev/synth, and used them on the old sound driver.  If you do, (Uncle
 |Sam's finger pointed at you) speak up, telling which apps you use which
 |do not work with the new audio driver, where I can find them, and how
 |are you going to help in implementing these devices.

Does this include /dev/sequencer too?  I use this device all the time via
drvmidi, xgmod, and some other apps on my AWE32 for playing MIDIs, MODs,
669s, etc. with AWE synth.

Randall