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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Soundblaster
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References: <hastyCK9tr8.GC7@netcom.com> <2ik1ba$iqo@fw.novatel.ca> <135493@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 02:13:31 GMT
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In article <135493@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert Sanders) writes:
>hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>
>>Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote:
>>: In article <2i6a2n$5m1@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>>: >and found it to work. My own experience with it was "messy", "buggy",
>>: >and "kludgey". The advantage that the snd_drv stuff has is that it
>>: >supports more cards than the one in NetBSD-current.
>
>>: You forgot that the snd_drv works across multiple-operation systems.
>
>>No; I said "messy".
>
>If this is Hannu Savolainen's VoxWare driver, then it also supports
>/dev/sequencer for the GUS and MPU-401 devices. It supports a uniform
>playing and recording interface to many different soundcards, providing
>/dev/audio (SUN-style ADPCM playback, minus some of the ioctls), /dev/dsp
>for 8 or 16 bit stereo or mono playback and recording, /dev/mixer, /dev/midi,
>etc. It allows multiple sequencers and soundcards in one machine.
>
>I'm working with someone else on the gmod program for playback
>of 4, 8, or 32 channel .MOD/.669/.MTM/.ULT song files. Currently
>it only works on the Gravis Ultrasound, but as more soundcards with
>onboard memory come out, VoxWare can be extended to work with them
>and gmod will not have to change. All in all, it seems a fairly
>well thought-out interface, although some of the more advanced
>features (such as an automatic General Midi patch manager for
>internal synths such as the GUS) are still being worked on.
>
>If snd_drv is not Hannu's driver, then I will quietly butt out.
>
By all means jump in specially with gmod.
Yes this is about Hannus's VoxWare also known as the linux sound driver.
I do have a gus and would like a copy of your gmod so I too can play
the top hit mod files :-)
BTW: mod files are the equivalent of midi files in the amiga world
and they seem to be popular in the net also many of the mod files
are 8 bit samples so must likely they will not sound as good as
midi files.
For those new to the scene, you can get midi files at:
Host sol.cs.ruu.nl
Location: /
DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x 512 Dec 7 11:11 /pub/MIDI
Tnks in advance,
Amancio
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