Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 08:31:46 +0300 From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@morton.cdrom.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: playmidi? Message-ID: <uG214Gl4U1@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199502140336.TAA00920@morton.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mon, 13 Feb 1995 19:36:17 -0800 References: <199502140336.TAA00920@morton.cdrom.com>
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In message <199502140336.TAA00920@morton.cdrom.com> Jordan K. Hubbard
writes:
>First he played a wav file, so I played a wav file. No big deal.
>Then he plays an Amiga mod file, and I do too (the `tracker' program
>is pretty cool - thanks Andrew! :). Then he plays a MIDI file and
>I'm lost. Ummm. Geeze, how do I play midi files? My SB16 here at
>work supports the snd7 device (midi), though unfortunately the AWE32
>box at home does not (can't even see a midi device at 0x300 - strange!).
>Even with a working snd7, however, I would still not be able to play
>midi files since there's no player to speak of! :-( Just cat'ing the
>midi file to the /dev/midi device doesn't work - sounds interesting,
>but doesn't work! :-)
Really, /dev/midi related to midi playing only a bit :-)
Kernel driver not able to play midi at all.
One of midi players (similar to tracker) should be ported.
I remember, I port one for 1.x. Right now I don't have
2.x box with soundcard to re-port it again, maybe later.
--
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