From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Feb 17 12: 9:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from dolphin.idleplay.net (ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net [68.14.62.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB5237B402 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:09:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by dolphin.idleplay.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1HK9B285747; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:09:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:09:11 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@cox.net Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: John Utz Subject: Re: can I do this with a midi program? Cc: Sue Blake , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Feb-2002 John Utz wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >> Rather than do a quote-and-followup, I just wanted to say that I, for >> one, would most definitely be interested in anything that would allow >> me to use my MIDI keyboard under FreeBSD! No more booting into >> Windows just to run Cakewalk! That would be just *so* excellent! :-) > > i know! and it actually *worked* at one point. tho mike durian was > *always* pushing the envelope, so it was hard to say if it was going to > work from one release to the next. Yes, I remember the days of the old Voxware drivers. :-) I truly mourned their passing. > so, with diffculty, i found an old dist of tclmidi. he stopped writing > drivers after version 3.1, but his driver code was really good. > > however, his freebsd code was written against freebsd 2.0.5. > > things have changed a bit. That's, uh, a bit of an understatement. :-) > so, here's something people could help me with: what replaced files.i386 > and i386/conf.c as the mechanism for listing what the possible devices > are? > > if i new that, i could try and hack this into a kernel and run with it, > because i saw it work that way once :-) I'll see what I can find out. > but i really should bite the bullet and try to do this as an lkm..ack! > kld, i am really showing my age here. Heh. :-) > i'll have to look at one of the more non-trivial .ko's and see what it > looks like. this shouldnt be too hard...durian did all the hard stuff.... I'll certainly wish you the best of luck! >> And Sue, you've piqued my interest again in exploring the tools that are >> available for Unix. I see there are still a few I have yet to explore. >> Now the only problem is finding the *time*. :-) > > midimountain looks awfully interesting, but rosegarden still stands in my > mind as the most visually beautiful app ever written in pure X widgets. > > it just suffered from the limitations of the underlying architecture. It *looked* nice, yes, and was quite an achievement in that respect, but it really was not very comofortable to actually use. > sadly the next version of rosegarden is a qt app. This could be a good thing. We'll reserve judgement. I didn't even think it was still under development, to be honest. -- Conrad Sabatier "Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message