/dev/midi and /dev/sequencer

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Aug 24 23:58:09 GMT 2005


On Wednesday 24 August 2005 05:25, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> > > I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work
> > > with arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with
> > > sequencer or midi... any ideas?

> > As of now, FreeBSD has no support for MIDI. We once had it, but not
> > anymore.
> > -Dan
>
> You can try OSS drivers from www.opensound.com. You will surely get at
> least software MIDI support.

AFAIK Rosegarden can play using timidity.. The latency is fairly abysmal, but 
if you're listening to a composition it's tolerable.

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