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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:55:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Chris Brunner <cjb@efn.org>
To:        Andrew Hodges <ahodges@tbs.com.au>
Cc:        "'freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Playing Midi files
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122185404.2775B-100000@person.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <c=AU%a=_%p=Territory_Busine%l=GREEBO-980123021419Z-331@greebo.tbs.com.au>

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Andrew,
I also tried the OSS drivers some time ago, but that was on 2.2.1.  I
don't have any problem with the wave output (i.e. .au, .wav, .mp3, .mod,
etc...), but it just those darn midis!
Any suggestions?

- Chris Brunner -
- cjb@efn.org   -

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Andrew Hodges wrote:

> Chris,
> 	you have almost the identical setup to me (I don't have the
> additional memory) I have also tried the drivers from 4Front
> Technologies
> the OSS/FreeBSD Drivers. I am not sure if we exhibit the same problems
> though. I haven't had a core dump, but when I do something like
> 
> cat xxxxxx.au >/dev/audio  it sounds really crappy.  I get hissing that
> doesn;t sound anyhting like it is supposed to. Is this the same sort of
> thing
> as you?
> 
> Regards
> Andrew Hodges
> 
> 
> >----------
> >From: 	Chris Brunner[SMTP:cjb@efn.org]
> >Sent: 	Friday, January 23, 1998 11:13 AM
> >To: 	freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: 	Playing Midi files
> >
> >I have been trying to get midis to play well in FreeBSD since I got it,
> >but I've had no luck.  I set up the VOXWARE stuff all fine and dandy, but
> >midis just sound really, really bad, if they play at all.  Sometimes,
> >there is no playback at all, sometimes I get a core dump.  When I say they
> >sound really bad, I mean the notes are the wrong instraments or not
> >played, and sound off-tone.
> >I have a SB32 PnP configured with Luigi's PnP driver running on FreeBSD
> >2.2.5.  The card has 2MB of onboard memory for loading soundfonts.
> >Thanks a lot, this problem has been bothering me for the 2 years I've been
> >running FreeBSD.
> >
> >- Chris Brunner -
> >- cjb@efn.org   -
> >
> >
> 
> 




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