From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 08:36:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E91316A41F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:36:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC8143D49 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:36:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA91EDD745; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:36:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:41:44 +0100 From: cpghost To: "Loren M. Lang" Message-ID: <20051223084144.GA781@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <20051210162448.10858.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <439B0BD2.8080809@thingy.apana.org.au> <20051211011434.GA70478@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <20051221173259.GC27642@alzatex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051221173259.GC27642@alzatex.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Missing MIDI Framework (was Re: Freebsd Theme Song) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:36:46 -0000 On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:32:59AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:14:34AM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:09:38PM +0000, David Gerard wrote: > > > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > > > > I vote for > > > > "Look what they've done to my song, Ma" - a > > > > commentary on the destruction of the (formally) > > > > world's best operating system. > > > > > > So far I'm finding 6.x a heck of a lot better than 5.x. The mousewheel > > > just works, a lot more of the ports just work, sound works ... you still > > > have to fiddle with /boot/loader.conf to get the sound to go, which is > > > completely braindead, but I'm sure it'll be up to the standard of Linux > > > distros 2001. > > > > Ahemm, speaking of sound... how about a, *cough*, working MIDI sequencer? > > Any way to attach a MIDI device to 5.x or 6.x _and_ being able to record > > from it? Anything workable yet? No? Am I missing something crucial here? > > How about Timidity? What would be nice, though, is for timidity to show > up as a hardware device. AFAIK, Timitidy is just a software MIDI player (MIDI -> wav converter). This is just one part of the the game. What I'm looking for is a way to record from MIDI devices (keyboards etc...), and this is not supported by Timidity. The sad thing about this is that we used to have a (sort of) working MIDI implementation in the past. :-( Dual-booting into gentoo/linux for this is not really a problem; but ain't there any brave soul who could fix MIDI for FreeBSD? Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/