Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:54:39 +0400 From: "Dmitriy Startsev" <metal_man@mail.ru> To: "4Front Technologies" <dev@opensound.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of theportsfromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <000901c469f5$8e9ca0f0$7b2a14ac@METALLER> References: <40F59CE0.1070008@opensound.com> <000701c469ee$72503ad0$7b2a14ac@METALLER> <40F5B2EF.6060009@opensound.com>
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Hello, 4Front! You wrote to "Dmitriy Startsev" <metal_man@mail.ru> on Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:25:51 -0700: FT> Hi, FT> I know MAudio really well (they are in here LA) and they have the FT> biggest following of the pro musician community. They say that there's FT> a bigger emphasis on audio samplers and loops (acid loops or sonar or FT> protools) because there is so much one can do with digital audio rather FT> than MIDI. VSTs are huge for professional music (we've created our own FT> VSTs check out http://www.opensound.com/proaudio.html) and that's where the action is. FT> But as you said, MIDI is important for music creation and that's the FT> space where currently OSS is deficient in but we're addressing this FT> issue. We have tried to implement MIDI software synths but licesing FT> sound banks is expensive and the synths available for free (fluidsynth FT> and others) aren't pro quality. We've looked at implementing DLS synth FT> but it's hard work for just one programmer. We have a softsynth that FT> comes with OSS (http://www.opensound.com/softoss.html) but it's not FT> good and relies on old Gravis (MIDIA) patch banks. SoftOSS can be used FT> together with Jazz or Noteedit - you just need to do the appropriate FT> programming. Many musicians have their own sound banks they would like to use, so IMHO it is enough to make a synth which can read a particular sound bank file format, but does not contain any ready to use sound banks. I understand that such work can't easily be done by one programmer, but do you have only one programmer? FT> Without a good software synth, there's no point in putting effort into FT> MIDI so we currently focus on digital audio and trying to make it FT> better than anything available for Mac/Windows/ALSA. For the time FT> being, timidity is pretty good and there is a way to use Timdidity as a FT> softsynth for the OSS /dev/sequencer (you can then use apps like FT> playmidi or ossmplay). To make audio support better than on Windows, you need to implement something similar to the "kx project" for Emu10kx based cards;) FT> best regards With best regards, Dmitriy Startsev.
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