Re: Do we need /dev/sequencer anymore?

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM Christos Margiolis
<christos@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> > On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 9:51 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 :-)
>
> I am not proposing to remove MIDI support in general, just
> /dev/sequencer. Regarding the rest of the MIDI codebase, I just want to
> clean it up, fix bugs and in general modernize it.

That would be great! Setting up midi is a kind of pita right now :-(

Looks like /dev/sequencer is the integral part of the MIDI framework
on FreeBSD and should not be removed? You can cat file.mid >
/dev/sequencer and have the midi file play.. or redirect usb midi data
to this sequencer and have the sound play etc? :-)

https://people.freebsd.org/~tanimura/newmidi/midiarch.html

Here are some midi utilities ports:

https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=midi&search=go&num=10&stype=name&method=match&deleted=excludedeleted&start=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensitive

:-)

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info