Maybe I'm wrong but at least part with running more audio "apps" in one time is solved http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#audioserver
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:58:37AM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: >> Jacob Meuser <jake...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:58:22AM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: >> > >> > > On the application side, I remember seeing a preliminary port of Ardour >> > > to OpenBSD, but it seems to have disappeared. >> > >> > Ardour uses jackd as it's hardware interface. B there is a sndio audio >> > backend for jackd in ports/packages, but there is no midi backends in >> > jackd that work on OpenBSD. >> > >> > although the ardour port you mention "worked", it was not really >> > usable. B I haven't had much interest in ardour in a while. >> >> Well, considering the fact that OpenBSD can do multi-track >> recording right out of the box, maybe there is no real need for an >> application like ardour... > > The main problem is that we have no way to keep audio and > MIDI in sync, neither there's a way to start multiple audio > programs simultaneously. This means that we're stuck in > using only one program at a time. > > jack tries to solve the problem, but aucat -- as some other > apps -- can't work with it. > > imo, that's the most urgent problem to solve. > > -- Alexandre > > -- http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
