audio/rosegarden is rather antiquated

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 4. March 2005 22:31, Lauri J Järvenpää wrote:
> Audio/rosegarden is antiquated, like anthem and midimountain, and new
> version would be desirable. But as it seems to need ALSA I guess it is
> impossible.

Correct.

> Which brings me to a bit off-topic point:
> Are there any MIDI sequencers in ports which would allow the use of
> software MIDI synths, like fluidsynth or timidity?

No.

> Or is there some way to 
> route /dev/midi(??) to a software synth.

No.

> In other words, are there any MIDI sequencers in the port tree that would
> allow some audible playback in a form or another.

No.

> Such sequencers would be 
> highly needed, both in software form and in hardware (MIDI in/out) form.

Either provide help in the efforts to get MIDI support back into FreeBSD or 
use 4front's commercial OSS drivers.

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