From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Oct 15 10:41:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA05749 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA05700 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA09493; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:22:05 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199710151622.RAA09493@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Who is interested in /dev/midi and /dev/synth ? To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:22:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Roome" at Oct 13, 97 06:05:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > 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 ... > Anyway, I don't have much info on this, all I know is that with my AWE64 > is very good at helping to hang my machine. > > I've tried to use rosegarden a few times so far, first I tried the Randall ... i have successfully run rosegarden instructing it to pipe the output through "timidity". I did not find a way to make this the default behaviour, so it was a bit annoying to select the output every time; but it was probably my fault for not having digged too deep in the docs. Furthermore, it is my understanding that the "portal" file system probably allows you to connect a name in the filesystem to a process so that you can make "/dev/sequencer" redirect to a process running "timdity" and have a software synthesizer (OSS has a product like this). The concept of portal is very nice the only unknown is that I have no idea how much of it really works having never used it. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________