From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 22:03:40 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 BC55616A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:03:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.mail.ru (mx2.mail.ru [194.67.23.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853D743D41 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:03:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from metal_man@mail.ru) Received: from [217.118.66.254] (port=24544 helo=METALLER) by mx2.mail.ru with smtp id 1Bkrqi-0007KO-00; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:03:38 +0400 Message-ID: <000701c469ee$72503ad0$7b2a14ac@METALLER> From: "Dmitriy Startsev" To: "4Front Technologies" , References: <40F59CE0.1070008@opensound.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:03:45 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 FL-Build: Fidolook 2004 (HL) 6.0.2600.32000 - 17/4/2004 06:54:21 Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of theportsfromthe/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 22:03:40 -0000 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:( 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.