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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: So we're stuck with using timidity now?
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> Here I am with an AWE 64 doing fabulous-sounding wavetable-based MIDI
> playback using the Voxware driver, and now I don't dare try to build a new
> kernel and be stuck with the (comparitively) rinky-dink sound of timidity.
> 
> I certainly can appreciate the desire to clean up the system and have a
> single audio driver, but this represents a major loss of functionality (at
> least for now).
> 
> Guess I'll have to rewrite (or maybe just trash altogether) the AWE setup
> tutorial I just put up on my web page the other day.
>  
Like I said before... Just use OSS/FreeBSD... It is better than VoxWare
anyway. And with some talking to Dev at 4-front tech, I'm sure an
agreement could be made.


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