Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:11:33 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?Q?=EC=C5=C2=C5=C4=C5=D7_?= =?koi8-r?Q?=E1=CC=C5=CB=D3=C5=CA?= <lebedev@zhtw.org.ru> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: usb audio and midi support Message-ID: <1139263893.81226.15.camel@sortomar> In-Reply-To: <200602062152.k16Lq4al093825@serene.no-ip.org> References: <TZNFf.48361$0N1.8771@newsfe5-win.ntli.net> <43e7b6cf$1@news.broadpark.no> <200602062152.k16Lq4al093825@serene.no-ip.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I am attracted by midi support. I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD internals but I would help with testing if somebody is interested in it. Alexey Lebedev. P. S. Sorry for english, I'm russian speaker. On пн, 2006-02-06 at 15:52 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > [ Cc'ed to the multimedia list ] > > In article <43e7b6cf$1@news.broadpark.no>, > Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@start.no> wrote: > > > >Mike Scott wrote: > >> I've a rather vague portable digital sound studio project in my mind, > >> involving a laptop running fbsd, plus a usb-based audio and midi i/o box > >> (something like the motu fastlane or one of the edirol boxes or..... [I > >> did say vague :-)] ). The problem being that laptops seem to come sans > >> midi and sans decent sound i/o facilities. > >> > >> But what's the chance something like this will be supported? > >> > >> Any ideas please about what might/will not work? > > > >Sound support (including usb audio) in FreeBSD has improved a lot lately > >(the last year), and is still improving, thanks to the dedicated work of > >the sound committers and other people that hang out at the > >freebsd-multimedia mailing list. > > > >Midi, on the other hand is not in a very good shape. Right now, we have > >approximately zero midi support in FreeBSD. A few people have stated > >that they will work / are working on something, but it seems midi isn't > >attracting a large enough audience yet, or we are missing a crucial few > >dedicated developers with a special interest in midi. > >The minimal audience also means that the amount of possible midi devices > >to test and iron out bugs on are unknown. > > I was browsing the NetBSD and OpenBSD websites yesterday specifically to see > what the state of their MIDI support looked like. Both OSes do support > MIDI, using (I think) hacked versions of the old Voxware drivers which were > also used by FreeBSD "once upon a time". > > I'm wondering how difficult it would be to merge in MIDI support from one or > the other of FreeBSD's sibling OSes. This zero MIDI support has been going > on for far too long (years!). > > Has anyone ever looked into this? > [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD58mVyzM2IAuFXBQRAsbBAJ4lhC66GRgtSi7ugOJLY9VrhcsaFgCePs7E VxyzHDDmlXLzIy1FHRE4+DI= =AHDn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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