Re: Do we need /dev/sequencer?

In reply to: Christos Margiolis : "Do we need /dev/sequencer?"
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From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek_at_cedro.info>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 20:47:11 UTC

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM Christos Margiolis <christos@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I want to clean up and modernize sys/dev/sound/midi and I'm wondering
> what the use-case for /dev/sequencer is nowadays, if any. Does anyone
> know of any application, or someone, who relies on this? If not, I think
> we could go ahead and get rid of it.

Although MIDI is not popular anymore for music generation in computer
games, it is still widely used in music industry as protocol/bus for
various keyboards and controllers, so I would not remove it if its
there and working :-)

Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUPs2pv5d_g :-)

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