From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 15:31:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E98716A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:31:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C9943D2F for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:31:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from axel_auweter@pop1.scram.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7F5529D4 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:31:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (dialc112.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de [129.187.26.112]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22CFE3100 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:31:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40F40057.6050203@pop1.scram.de> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:31:35 +0200 From: Axel Auweter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040630 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <40F37D8C.1000108@midsouth.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <40F37D8C.1000108@midsouth.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of the ports fromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:31:33 -0000 Hi, I don't share your opinion, because I'm sort of disappointed by FreeBSD's audio support. I use FreeBSD for all of my daily work, and I love it, but concerning music production, it's not my first choice. I read about Rosegarden-4 and it seems to be a real good piece of software, but it requires ALSA and therefore doesn't run on FreeBSD. AFAIK it has already been discussed that porting ALSA to FreeBSD seems to be nearly impossible. Does anybody know, whether there are any plans or ongoing projects to create a better sound architecture for FreeBSD than OSS? Axel