From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 09:52:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26665 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.pinpt.com (dns.pinpt.com [205.179.195.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA26655 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from journeyman (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by dns.pinpt.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA18133; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:51:05 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 09:49:11 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: MIDI Software for FreeBSD? To: "Hr.Ladavac" Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199702131055.AA006381359@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Yah, I've looked in the ports/audio section and searched the Message and FAQ > > archives :( > > > > I guess I will have to broaden my search to Linux and SCO software to see if I > > can find such a beast (One of the last things keeping NT on my system. As > > soon as I find an answer to this it goes!) > > I'm afraid you won't find any. I've been searching for years, and the only > thing that is barely useful is a tcl MIDI library. One would have to start > from scratch. (I've lost the URL, sorry) > > Presently, nothing approaches the QBase, which is the only reason why > WfWG 3.11 still remains on my machine. > > MACH might be a better platform for MIDI than UNIX, anyway. You *do* need > hard realtime to play that junk. Recording is even worse. Naturally, we're > talking about live and studio performances here. Just for fun, you don't > really care if one note comes too late :) > > Hard RT is yet another reason why I prefer DOS based MIDI sequencers: there > ain't no OS which *might* disturb their operation. Thanks for the info, I think I will just have to put together a cheap 486 system for the MIDI work then :( I really want to get my home system moved over so I can start on a couple of other projects. I'm going to have to look at the MIDI software thing again though. I wonder how well some of the DOS apps would work under doscmd or such. Or how well the Windoz 3.1 softare would work under WABI for linux. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 02/13/97 09:49:12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------