Re: Do we need /dev/sequencer anymore?

On 17 May 2025 20:55:38 UTC, 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.
>
>Christos
>

Speaking of modernizing MIDI. MIDI 2.0 has been out a while now, and it's just a matter of time that it will become relevant.

<https://github.com/midi2-dev>

Regards,
Mathias