Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:26:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Derek L. VerLee" <dlverlee@mtu.edu> To: <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: midi support, s card recommendation., ect Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0104122305180.13602-100000@colossus.csl.mtu.edu>
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Question: what hardware is recommended for externel midi? or should I buy OSS? As of right now I am running a sblive and a sb pci128. These are simply the cards that I happen to have at this time. I am running fBSD 4.2-RELEASE. [Background] This midi does not work on either of these cards using the drivers I know about. Sound out and the mixer does work, but I have had problems getting sound input on both the cards. What I need is basic externel midi support (i have actuall synth hardware to controll with it), along with good support for sound (the more support for the features of the card, the better, of course). Can we expect that midi will work in these cards soon (ie with the 4.3 release)? Otherwise should I buy new hardware or pay for OSS? Or even, god forbid, switch to linux? [More background:] I dualboot with win2k, but, i have several reasons why i would just like it to be gone. (They include the benifit of having only one operating system for everything, the fact i dont have the really have the money to pay for pro level audio/midi stuff, and i dont like to pirate it, i dont like the interface, and i need a 'nix enviroment to program in anyways.) I have some synth hardware and plan on makeing music. I understand that to do this with unix as the sequencer (ect) it is going to involve a little programming on my part, and/or the use of complicated text based systems such as Csound and Common Music. My main goal is to resolve this confict of intrests as cleanly as possible. Any suggestion or viewpoint is welcome! Thanks! -Derek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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