Improvements in the soundsystem

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> (from Mon, 25 Sep 2006  
09:25:47 +0200):

> 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 ?

You have to create one yourself. And then any commiter can add you to  
the ACL (ContributorsGroup in this case).

>> 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?

We don't have to be compatible. If our lib is much better, nobody will  
mind. But maybe we can borrow some ideas from them.

Bye,
Alexander.

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