I'm picking up the M-Audio Audiophile 192, mostly becuase this sound card does work well with FreeBSD/OSS drivers, from what I've read. ?
But mmm, unfortunately I didn't even know/remeber that FreeBSD has no midi at all ? It certainly won't prevent me from using *BSD anyways. Hopefully, midi may ba added in the future. ahh well :( > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:20:11 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: > Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article > > 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 > > -- > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. > Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: > secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- > chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart > > FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd > > "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, > because that would also stop you from doing clever things." > -- Doug Gwyn > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
