Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:47:47 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome), multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is interested in /dev/midi and /dev/synth ? Message-ID: <199710151847.LAA04999@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:22:04 BST." <199710151622.RAA09493@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hm... Try to see if rosegarden works with the stock sound driver. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo : > > > > 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/ > _____________________________|______________________________________
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