From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Oct 16 05:08:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA24263 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 05:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA24248 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 05:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ct.picker.com) Resent-From: rhh@ct.picker.com Received: from ct.picker.com ([144.54.37.11]) by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 6:08:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02695; Thu, 16 Oct 97 06:08:09 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id GAA06415; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 06:03:51 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <199710161003.GAA06415@elmer.ct.picker.com> Message-Id: <19971015144955.58370@ct.picker.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:49:55 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who is interested in /dev/midi and /dev/synth ? References: <19971015134829.31569@ct.picker.com> <199710151730.SAA09694@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: <199710151730.SAA09694@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 06:30:23PM +0100 Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 06:03:51 -0400 Resent-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Luigi Rizzo: |> I use timidity on my Sparc at work and have used it on Linux boxes. Nice |> program if you don't have a card with wavetable support (which BTW are dirt |> cheap nowadays). However it sucks serious CPU, and the sound quality with |> GUS patches doesn't touch that with the AWE wavetable. I think I'll stay | |ok. do you know if it is possible to use the AWE patches with timidity ? No, I really don't. I've seen a GUS patch to AWE sample converter, but haven't ever seen one going the other direction. Randy