From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 1 07:14:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA02355 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 07:14:08 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA02348; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 07:14:06 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA05312; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 10:02:04 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199503011502.KAA05312@goof.com> Subject: Re: Two things: Sound, playmidi To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 10:02:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: hasty@netcom.com, ports@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Mar 1, 95 11:09:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1511 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage wrote: > >> The other issue has to do with ports. I remember hearing Jordan saying > >>something about FreeBSD not having a midi player. Well, I took to the task of > >>getting linux's playmidi working today, expecting a nightmare, and it was no > > >Well, playmidi is okay... I think that adagio sounds better but heck if > >you like it cool :) > > If you don't yet notice, playmidi is already ported. Found that out yesterday. > I don't think so, adagio needs many fixes especially for > timing problem (it calculates times by itself in wrong way). I've noticed this. On *certain* midi files, playmidi sounds better, because it's timing seems a bit more robust. For instance, I have a midi file called "dethstar.mid" which I added some extra voices to, and playmidi plays it great, but when I play it with adagio, the trumpet voices sound a bit warbled. > Yes, you can compile and run it with only few simple changes, but output > will be very strange for some midis. See above. > Playmidi uses more advanced driver abilities. Maybe we need to combine the capabilities of both. Adagio seems much better as far as handling reverb properly etc. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----