From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Mar 28 20:52:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA08287 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 20:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamby1 (hamby1.lightside.net [207.67.176.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA08281 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 20:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by hamby1 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA00998 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 20:52:13 -0800 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 20:52:13 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Message-Id: <199703290452.UAA00998@hamby1> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Free software wavetable MIDI synthesizer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: A3esXVOOSya1tI5OgWDmzg== Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk With all the recent talk of Open Sound System for FreeBSD, I visited their web page and tried out the Solaris/x86 version. Upshot is, it sucks, and costs twice as much as the FreeBSD version. I wasn't really interested in either version, since my Soundblaster 16 is already supported by any OS with sound support, except for the mention of "software wavetable synthesis." Ah, but on their Web page, they mention a free program called Timidity which offers this for many flavors of UNIX, in addition to Windows, DOS, and MacOS. It sounds excellent (especially since you can use GUS patchfiles with it!), doesn't require OSS, and even offers your choice of Motif, TCL/Tk, or NCurses GUIs. I highly recommend it. Now my Sun at work can finally play MIDI! In fact, I'm thinking of porting it to BeOS, because it actually sounds BETTER than the software wavetable support that Be licensed for it. :) The URL is: http://www.clinet.fi/~toivonen/timidity/ Does anyone want to make a port? :) Cheers, Jake