Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:14:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: "\(Tuc at Beach House\)" <tuc@ttsg.com> Subject: Re: Play/Edit MIDI Message-ID: <XFMail.20040521211422.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040521234525.GA6731@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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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 <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
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