Improvements in the soundsystem

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 20:50, Brent Casavant wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Quoting Eric Masson <e-masson at kisoft-services.com> (Sun, 24 Sep 2006 
19:14:27 +0200):
> > > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> writes:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > Very rudimentary: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/soundsystem
> > >
> > > Regarding midi, what about HPS' umidi ?
> >
> > Hans Petter, could you please have a look at the wiki and add 1-2
> > sentences (or more) about your umidi there?

Have I already got an account there ?

>
> At first I thought this was "HP's" umidi, which got me to thinking
> that SGI IRIX has a long-established MIDI API, which I believe has
> been used in a variety of professional applications.  It might be worth
> studying that API for ideas/gotchas.
>
> Searching for "MIDI" at http://techpubs.sgi.com/ in the IRIX 6.5
> category will bring up quite a bit of documentation, including
> man pages for the API.

That might sound like a good idea.

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?cmd=getdoc&coll=0650&db=man&fname=3%20mdIntro

The only problem I see is that there might be a naming conflict using "libmd". 
So maybe we have to call it libumidi?

--HPS