Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:49:09 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: "John L.Utz III" <john@utzweb.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any oftheportsfromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200407171249.13197.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <86pt6v9jfi.wl%john@utzweb.net> References: <40F59CE0.1070008@opensound.com> <200407161950.15899.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <86pt6v9jfi.wl%john@utzweb.net>
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--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--
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