From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 17:45:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD7216A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:45:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087FF43D39 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:45:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@opensound.com) Received: from [192.1.2.22] (c-24-127-17-145.we.client2.attbi.com[24.127.17.145]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004071517450301100t2rc5e> (Authid: opensound); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:45:04 +0000 Message-ID: <40F6C29F.50004@opensound.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:45:03 -0700 From: 4Front Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: conrads@cox.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of theportsfromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:45:05 -0000 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Perhaps, but still, native support is what we need and want. > > Speaking of which, I was browsing 4Front's site the other day and was a > little disappointed to see that even the existing FreeBSD support is > not available for amd64. Is that likely to change anytime in the > future? > Yes, we plan to support FreeBSD on AMD64 with FreeBSD 5.2.1 - should be out in a week or two. Right now we're trying to support DragonFly BSD. [SNIP] > > Is there any hope at all of the Unix sound development community ever > coming together and agreeing on a cross-platform standard? This seems > to be what's really needed, IMHO. > OSS was (and is) the cross platform API standard. It's just that the Linux guys didn't want to put effort into OSS because the perceived notion was that 4Front is a big bad proprietary company and OSS API was BSD licensed. ALSA appealed to the GPL people. The fact that ALSA had to support OSS API before it was allowed into the Linux kernel implies that OSS API is still the "de-facto" standard for all UNIX operating systems. > > BROING!!! MIDI is *the* single most important aspect of music creation > for most people. I'm astonished to see such a statement. > Perhaps you should talk to people using Macs and Windows, they're all moving to samplers/vsts. Nobody creates .mid files anymore, it's all in pure digital format such as wav or mp3 or aiff. Garage band on Mac OSX has more emphasis on digital audio sequencing/sampling rather than MIDI. That said, yes, MIDI is important because it's the standard way of connecting keyboards to computers. OSS already has very good MIDI in/out support. The sequencer is lowlevel but functional and the only thing needed is a proper MIDI patchbay/router/sysex support and we plan to address that in the near future. [SNIP] > And please don't forget the amd64 platform, either. :-) > Certainly!. best regards Dev Mazumdar ----------------------------------------------------------- 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 URL: www.opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0496 Email: info@opensound.com -----------------------------------------------------------