From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 03:25:42 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 45F9D16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:25:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao03.cox.net (lakermmtao03.cox.net [68.230.240.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC93843D1F for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:25:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.71.51]) by lakermmtao03.cox.net ESMTP <20040715032539.GXCJ27456.lakermmtao03.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:25:39 -0400 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6F3PerR040781; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:25:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@dolphin.local.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by dolphin.local.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6F3PeJZ040749; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:25:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:25:40 -0500 From: Conrad Sabatier To: Dmitriy Startsev Message-ID: <20040715032540.GA79146@cox.net> References: <000401c469cc$9b7ef490$5b3c13ac@METALLER> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000401c469cc$9b7ef490$5b3c13ac@METALLER> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of the ports fromthe/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: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:25:42 -0000 On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:01:30PM +0400, Dmitriy Startsev wrote: > Hello, Conrad! > You wrote to "Kevin Koch" on Wed, 14 Jul 2004 > 11:50:22 -0500 (CDT): > > CJS> FreeBSD's sound support is primitive in the extreme compared to the > CJS> facilities available on other platforms. [snip] > If you need this functionality so much, why don't you develop it yourself? If I could, I would. That's just way beyond my skill level, I'm afraid. Porting something like ALSA and/or JACK over to FreeBSD would, I'm sure, be a monumental undertaking. I don't think a single individual could do it on his own. > Or hire some programmers, money always were a good motivation;) True. :-) Unfortunately, that's one thing I don't have an abundance of. :-) Ah well, life goes on, I guess. It just looks like I'm going to have to make some hard choices soon, which I really wish were not the case. -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"