New USB MIDI driver for FreeBSD

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Fri Sep 1 19:26:30 UTC 2006


Quoting Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> (from Mon, 28 Aug 2006  
09:31:49 +0200):

> On Monday 28 August 2006 08:03, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> (from Sun, 27 Aug 2006
>>
>> 17:19:22 +0200):
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > During the past week I have been working on USB MIDI support for FreeBSD.
>> > I choose the simplest approach, and that was to create a raw/direct MIDI
>> > device. I have created a user-land library called "umidi20" that will do
>> > the low-level sequencing / timing stuff.
>>
>> Is libumidi20 something which only can be used with USB MIDI, or would
>> it be useful for other MIDI stuff too? I don't own any MIDI stuff, so
>> I just ask out of curiosity.
>>
>
> It can be used with any MIDI stuff, as long as there is a raw interface.

Why using "umidi" in the name then? What about a more generic one?

Bye,
Alexander.

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