From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 10:49:26 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 2649D16A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:49:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8772443D31 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:49:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69876167522; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:49:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6HAnE5t097037 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:49:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: "John L.Utz III" Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:49:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <40F59CE0.1070008@opensound.com> <200407161950.15899.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <86pt6v9jfi.wl%john@utzweb.net> In-Reply-To: <86pt6v9jfi.wl%john@utzweb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_oQQ+A9/cGRjShp1"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407171249.13197.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:49:26 -0000 --Boundary-02=_oQQ+A9/cGRjShp1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline *sigh* I originally invited Dev to comment in this thread about the current=20 development/state of OSS because some people suggested changing the API of= =20 our soundsystem. Dev made a remark about further improving the MIDI support= =20 of their product _not being a top priority_ at the moment, because they wan= t=20 to pave the way for modern digital audio technology based on OSS first and= =20 everybody seems to have just read that remark, or half of it, and=20 misunderstood it to boot. I'm sure you all know this, John, but perhaps I should clear it up a bit fo= r=20 the occasional readers of this list and those who are perhaps only starting= =20 out with this whole multimedia thing: OSS is two things: It's 1.) The Open Sound System, a commercial software=20 product that contains sound drivers for a wide variety of hardware, develop= ed=20 by 4Front Technologies. It is available for many UNIX flavours, including -= =20 for more information see their website, http://www.opensound.com. OSS is also 2.)Tthe commonly used name for the API defined by this product.= =20 Many sound drivers and driver frameworks are source and binary compatible t= o=20 this API, including FreeBSD's and Linux'. So when Dev Mazumdar discusses features and future directions of OSS, he=20 discusses the _product_. That's why discussing the future development of MI= DI=20 support like it has happened here is offtopic - it's the future development= =20 of the OSS product, discussing it should happen at 4front's facilities and= =20 between 4front developers and (prospective) customers.=20 Dev is at the moment not at all involved in actual development of FreeBSD's= =20 _own_ sound driver framework (except trying to coordinate some API-related= =20 issues). The development of OUR stuff, including getting MIDI support back= =20 into FreeBSD's own sound drivers, is currently done by people like Matthew= =20 Kanner and Seigo Tanimura and it's happening in FreeBSD-CURRENT. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --Boundary-02=_oQQ+A9/cGRjShp1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA+QQoXhc68WspdLARAlOhAJ0S/A/CCxVhgt8ele/CiyCvFXTQ8wCeLkX2 O2wTYBsx0+yeulj/NtviCWE= =hjtA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_oQQ+A9/cGRjShp1--