Re: Native sound system

> Thursday, April 05, 2018 at 2:24 AM, "Martin Husemann" > libosssaudio.so is only a (tiny) compat shim on NetBSD (like 1000 lines of > C code). > > Adding newer OSS versions to that is more work, not less ;-) > > But it certainly should be considered. We are currently at 0x030001. Does anyone

Re: Native sound system

Hi, NetBSD-8 features and in-kernel audio mixer with a sun audio/OSS compatible audio interface. Each instance of an open audio device provides a seperate audio device to each audio application/audio server with independent software volume for each channel. This makes it possible to run

Re: Native sound system

Am 5. April 2018 03:40:12 MESZ schrieb Sid : >> Wednesday, April 04, 2018 at 6:32 AM; "Benny Siegert" > /, from OpenBSD, which can >> handle MIDI frontends to a sound server (or directly to the >hardware). >> >> Are people still using MIDI? > The amount of MIDI capable devices

Re: Native sound system

Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2018, 02:37:38 CEST schrieb Aaron B.: > But if you mean interfacing with hardware synthesizers made before 1999 > or so - then MIDI is the only way to go. There is still quite a bit of > such equipment still in use that will be used until it dies. > > Even modern USB based

Re: Native sound system

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 03:40:12AM +0200, Sid wrote: > NetBSD current should jump to or try OSS version 4, to avoid redoing > a lot of work. libosssaudio.so is only a (tiny) compat shim on NetBSD (like 1000 lines of C code). Adding newer OSS versions to that is more work, not less ;-) But it

Re: Native sound system

> Wednesday, April 04, 2018 at 6:32 AM; "Benny Siegert" > Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:28 AM Sid wrote: > > OSS version 4 from http://developer.opensound.com/ is supposed to allow > multiple sound applications to play simultaneously, and it has improvements > over previous and forked versions. For the

Re: Native sound system

> Wednesday, April 04, 2018 at 6:32 AM; "Benny Siegert" > Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:28 AM Sid wrote: > > OSS version 4 from http://developer.opensound.com/ is supposed to allow > multiple sound applications to play simultaneously, and it has improvements > over previous and forked versions. For the

Re: Native sound system

> Wednesday, April 04, 2018 at 6:32 AM; "Benny Siegert" > Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:28 AM Sid wrote: > > OSS version 4 from http://developer.opensound.com/ is supposed to allow > multiple sound applications to play simultaneously, and it has improvements > over previous and forked versions. For the

Re: Native sound system

On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:32:16 + Benny Siegert wrote: > Are people still using MIDI? Depends. If you are talking about rendering music for games, websites, etc via MIDI files, I would expect that to be rare these days. But if you mean interfacing with hardware

Re: Native sound system

Benny Siegert wrote: > NetBSD has an in-kernel audio mixer that allows multiple audio sources to > play at the same time. I think it might only be in 8-BETA or -current > though.0 It is: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?audio++NetBSD-current What is the history of audio in NetBSD? Is it

Re: Native sound system

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:28 AM Sid wrote: > OSS version 4 from http://developer.opensound.com/ is supposed to allow multiple sound applications to play simultaneously, and it has improvements over previous and forked versions. For the most part, it has a BSD license. NetBSD has