From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 19:14:50 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 4F10F16A4CF for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakermmtao02.cox.net (lakermmtao02.cox.net [68.230.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC40243D31 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net ([68.11.70.23]) by lakermmtao02.cox.netESMTP <20040522021426.OPWX29667.lakermmtao02.cox.net@ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net>; Fri, 21 May 2004 22:14:26 -0400 Received: from ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i4M2ERZq085927; Fri, 21 May 2004 21:14:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost)i4M2EMb2085926; Fri, 21 May 2004 21:14:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.5 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20040521234525.GA6731@cnd.mcgill.ca> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:14:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier To: Mathew Kanner cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org cc: "\(Tuc at Beach House\)" Subject: Re: Play/Edit MIDI X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: conrads@cox.net List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 02:14:50 -0000 On 21-May-2004 Mathew Kanner wrote: > On May 21, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> On 21-May-2004 Tuc at Beach House wrote: >> >> > So now I can't get anywhere. Is there any sort of mirror site for >> >> > it? >> >> >> >> Yeah, I meant to send in a problem report on that. Forgot about it. >> >> >> >> Do a Google search for "eawpats". There are a number of sites carrying >> >> the >> >> needed instrument patches. >> >> >> > Can't I just do : >> > >> > (cd /usr/ports/audio/eawpats;make;make install) >> > >> > It seems to have worked pretty well. The lyrics don't match whats >> > playing, but atleast I get sound. :) >> >> Ah, yes. I forgot there was a port for that. :-) >> >> I do hope someday we'll see the return of real, full, true MIDI support. I >> miss it. :-( >> >> By the way, does anyone know anything about the status of MIDI support in >> any >> of the other BSDs? > > I'm getting closer and closer to import my midi work to > FreeBSD (thanks to lots of positive response at BSDCan). I do know > that I reference the NetBSD midi work, and that it appears to work. Cool. One thing I'm curious about: are we talking about support for external MIDI synths only, or the capability of using a soundcard's built-in MIDI synth? It's been *ages* since we've had support for either, but I especially miss the latter. -- Conrad Sabatier - "In Unix veritas"