From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 22 19:44:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21854 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsdx.dyn.ml.org (root@pm335-28.dialip.mich.net [35.9.11.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21847 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:44:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mcdougall@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net (user1@localhost.dyn.ml.org [127.0.0.1]) by bsdx.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA00374 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:44:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mcdougall@ameritech.net) Message-ID: <34C81217.673DE4D5@ameritech.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:44:23 -0500 From: Adam McDougall Reply-To: mcdougall@ameritech.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Playing Midi files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Hodges wrote: > Chris, > you have almost the identical setup to me (I don't have the > additional memory) I have also tried the drivers from 4Front > Technologies > the OSS/FreeBSD Drivers. I am not sure if we exhibit the same problems > though. I haven't had a core dump, but when I do something like > > cat xxxxxx.au >/dev/audio it sounds really crappy. I get hissing that > doesn;t sound anyhting like it is supposed to. Is this the same sort of > thing > as you? > > Regards > Andrew Hodges > > >---------- > >From: Chris Brunner[SMTP:cjb@efn.org] > >Sent: Friday, January 23, 1998 11:13 AM > >To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Playing Midi files > > > >I have been trying to get midis to play well in FreeBSD since I got it, > >but I've had no luck. I set up the VOXWARE stuff all fine and dandy, but > >midis just sound really, really bad, if they play at all. Sometimes, > >there is no playback at all, sometimes I get a core dump. When I say they > >sound really bad, I mean the notes are the wrong instraments or not > >played, and sound off-tone. > >I have a SB32 PnP configured with Luigi's PnP driver running on FreeBSD > >2.2.5. The card has 2MB of onboard memory for loading soundfonts. > >Thanks a lot, this problem has been bothering me for the 2 years I've been > >running FreeBSD. > > > >- Chris Brunner - > >- cjb@efn.org - > > > > > Hmm just for the record, I tried awe with 2 megs under OSS drivers, and moy > > did midis sound like sh**. missing notes (sounded like it had a 2 note > polyphony max instead of 32:P) and notes sounded offtone. Never did get the > > voxware drivers to do the awe at all thought.