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From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@student.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: /dev/midi and /dev/sequencer
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:47:36PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:59:39PM +0100, Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22.
> > 
> > Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi 
> > or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in the 
> > kernel at the moment.
> > 
> > I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work with 
> > arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with sequencer 
> > or midi... any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> As of now, FreeBSD has no support for MIDI. We once had it, but not
> anymore.
> -Dan
> -- 
> Dan Ponte
> http://www.theamigan.net/
> When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half
> loop?
You can try Eric A. Welsh's set of Gravis Ultrasound MIDI patches
(/usr/ports/audio/eawpats) which pulls in Timidity++.  This way you have
at least software MIDI playback.  The patchset sounds quite good (better
than the native MIDI of my sound card).

Regards,
Rene
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