From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 22:25:55 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 3C05616A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:25:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4A343D1F for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:25:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@opensound.com) Received: from [192.1.2.22] (c-24-127-17-145.we.client2.attbi.com[24.127.17.145]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004071422255201100t2qsce> (Authid: opensound); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:25:54 +0000 Message-ID: <40F5B2EF.6060009@opensound.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:25:51 -0700 From: 4Front Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitriy Startsev References: <40F59CE0.1070008@opensound.com> <000701c469ee$72503ad0$7b2a14ac@METALLER> In-Reply-To: <000701c469ee$72503ad0$7b2a14ac@METALLER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any oftheportsfromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:25:55 -0000 Dmitriy Startsev wrote: > Hello, 4Front! > You wrote to 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:( Hi, I know MAudio really well (they are in here LA) and they have the biggest following of the pro musician community. They say that there's a bigger emphasis on audio samplers and loops (acid loops or sonar or protools) because there is so much one can do with digital audio rather than MIDI. VSTs are huge for professional music (we've created our own VSTs check out http://www.opensound.com/proaudio.html) and that's where the action is. But as you said, MIDI is important for music creation and that's the space where currently OSS is deficient in but we're addressing this issue. We have tried to implement MIDI software synths but licesing sound banks is expensive and the synths available for free (fluidsynth and others) aren't pro quality. We've looked at implementing DLS synth but it's hard work for just one programmer. We have a softsynth that comes with OSS (http://www.opensound.com/softoss.html) but it's not good and relies on old Gravis (MIDIA) patch banks. SoftOSS can be used together with Jazz or Noteedit - you just need to do the appropriate programming. Without a good software synth, there's no point in putting effort into MIDI so we currently focus on digital audio and trying to make it better than anything available for Mac/Windows/ALSA. For the time being, timidity is pretty good and there is a way to use Timdidity as a softsynth for the OSS /dev/sequencer (you can then use apps like playmidi or ossmplay). best regards Dev Mazumdar ----------------------------------------------------------- 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 URL: www.opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0496 Email: info@opensound.com -----------------------------------------------------------