Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 12:44:30 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Fireel <Fireel@xxx.lt> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIDI problem on SiS 7012 Message-ID: <20021201204430.BE5F3753@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Fireel <Fireel@xxx.lt> of "Sun, 01 Dec 2002 14:58:14 %2B0200." <20021201145814.2521f06d.Fireel@xxx.lt>
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--==_Exmh_1707658062P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Good day, > > I am having some trouble setting up my midi playback, and I was wondering, if anyone here could help me. > > I am using a SiS 7012 built-in sound card and I have it on a FreeBSD-4.6.2-Release. My sound card wasn't supported in previous FreeBSD releases, but now, it seems to work perfectly. > > The procedure of setting it up was standart. I added a device pcm line in my kernel and created devices. After these procedures showed no errors(and midi playback failed), I began to wonder what was the problem. It seems that people seldom play midi anymore, but if anyone has ever succeded in this, please, share your experience. MIDI support was "lost" IIRC, with the upgrade from OSS to the pcm driver(s) sometime in 3-CURRENT, which was the last time I was able to use my AWE32 daughter board with FreeBSD... There have been periodic mutterings about people hacking support back in (and pronouncements about how trivial it is), but I don't know what the current status is. Probably the best you can do is to use the 'timidity'[0] port or some derivative to /play/ MIDI. Doesn't help if you want to use MIDI sequencing software like 'Rosegarden' or similar to capture/manipulate MIDI events. HTH. Regards, AS [0] Timidity is actually pretty cool. It uses a GUS-compatible (Gravis UltraSound, remember them?) patchset and renders the MIDI file to WAV, IIRC. Because the patchsets are (a) documented and (b) high-quality, you'll actually get much better sound this way than the cheesy FM synthesis on most MIDI-capable cards. Note that your card doesn't actually need MIDI-capability at all to work for MIDI playback with Timidity... And there is (or used to be, anyway) boat-loads of patches, patch managers, editors etc. available for GUS cards on the 'net. I even have a complete download of the old Gravis FTP site on CD somewhere around here. As Gravis abandoned their sound card business after Creative won the market and concentrated on game controllers instead, you may have to dig to find any of this stuff from them anymore. --==_Exmh_1707658062P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE96nSuPHh895bDXeQRAnXeAJ9kKvqb1dezjWFe/LCRT8U3gp21dwCeI0le MC8NQlqoGIDSSVsOqrOm5aE= =S55P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1707658062P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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