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[Oliver Fromme]

Jayton Garnett wrote:
 > Why would I be bothered about MIDI?

You wouldn't because you're obviously not a musician.

 > I've got an on-board sound card that has, get this, 5.1 Surround Sound. 5.1
 > surround sound, can you ruddy well believe it?

What does that have to do with MIDI?

I've got a MIDI keyboard that can be connected to a PC.
It can be used with almost every OS on the planet, from
ancient MS-DOS to Windows 7, of course OS X and Linux,
NetBSD and OpenBSD, and even less common systems like
OS/2, BeOS and its successor Haiku-OS.  They all support
MIDI interfaces out of the box.

But -- FreeBSD does not.  It's the only OS I cannot use
my keyboard with.  This is frustrating and annoying.

 > Come on, it's 2010, not 1985! Get with the times. Most content will be
 > streamed online within the next 5, a lot of it already is.
 > How will your MIDI cope then?
 > 
 > mv /dev/midi* /dev/null    ;-)

Sounds like you don't know what MIDI really is, and how
important it still is for musicians.

Best regards
   Oliver

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