Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:03:45 +0400 From: "Dmitriy Startsev" <metal_man@mail.ru> To: "4Front Technologies" <dev@opensound.com>, <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of theportsfromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <000701c469ee$72503ad0$7b2a14ac@METALLER> References: <40F59CE0.1070008@opensound.com>
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Hello, 4Front! You wrote to <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> on Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:51:44 -0700: FT> We have some work to do in the MIDI Sequencer space. We plan to address FT> this and we'll be happy to share our work with FreeBSD developers. Just FT> that right now, we see that MIDI isn't important for music creation. FT> Companies like MAudio are more focussed on pro audio than MIDI. The FT> M-Audio Revolution 7.1 audio card doesn't even have a MIDI port. These companies don't create music, they create audio hardware (and software), and they focus on whatever is more profitable for them. Particularly M-Audio Rev.7.1 is not a professional audio card. MIDI is *very* important for music creation, I can tell this for sure as I know a lot of musicians. Too bad commercial project developers sometimes don't care about real people's needs:( FT> We do plan on doing proper ALSA emulation for audio and MIDI by FT> completely rewriting the ALSA Libraries to use OSS rather than ALSA FT> lowlevel drivers. It can be done, just a whole lot of work is needed. FT> It's a better approach than using the Cuckoo concept because ALSA keeps FT> changing internally and the only thing relatively stable would be the FT> ALSA libraries. I hope that we have the time and man power to pull this FT> off. Good news, this will allow more software to run under FreeBSD. With best regards, Dmitriy Startsev.
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