From: Juergen Lock <n...@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Subject: Re: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 02:15:00 +0200
Message-ID: <19990502021500.a3...@saturn.kn-bremen.de>

nox> On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:27:35AM +0900, Seigo TANIMURA wrote:
nox> > On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:15:05 +0200,
nox> >   Juergen Lock <n...@jelal.kn-bremen.de> said:
nox> > 
nox> > >> Another bad news, I tried driving my SC-88 connected directly to a PC 
using
nox> > >> Windows 95 and Portman PC/S driver, to find a miserable result. I saw 
no midi
nox> > >> messages come properly, so Portman PC/S should be cooking the signals 
in some way...
nox> > 
nox> > nox> Or uses a higher speed than 38k4, can you check that?  Hmm, or maybe
nox> > nox> i should just take my old Atari MSTe and use that as serial<->midi
nox> > nox> interface...
nox> > 
nox> > 
nox> > Bitrate > 38.4k... I wish I had a looooong serial cable. The PC I had a 
test
nox> > on the Portman driver is not in my room, and it is not a portable one.
nox> > 
nox> > Atari, I have only heard the name. I played with an Acorn when I was a 
kiwi.
nox> 
nox> Acorn, what CPU did it have again? :)

Sorry, it was not mine, so I have no idea. I remember that Acone had a FM 
synthesizer
in it, no midi interfaces. It sounded like a flat harpsichord, which was good 
at that
time(in 1993, six years ago).


nox>  Anyway I now have restored the m68k-atari crosscompiler from tape and made
nox> a little /dev/midi <-> /dev/modem2 connection program.  Well, it works!
nox> Now, does anyone know a sequencer program that has a tick display and
nox> that can record one track while playing back another?  rosegarden can only
nox> do one thing at a time...

Playing and recording simultaneously? I wish I knew one...


nox>  Oh and i had to patch this to get my kernel to build:
nox> 
nox> Index: i386/conf/files.i386
nox> @@ -225,8 +225,10 @@
nox>  i386/isa/sound/uart6850.c optional        uart    device-driver
nox>  i386/isa/sound/uart16550.c        optional        uartsio device-driver
nox>  i386/isa/sound/midi_synth.c       optional        uart    device-driver
nox> +i386/isa/sound/midi_synth.c       optional        uartsio device-driver
nox>  i386/isa/sound/midi_synth.c       optional        css     device-driver
nox>  i386/isa/sound/midibuf.c  optional        uart    device-driver
nox> +i386/isa/sound/midibuf.c  optional        uartsio device-driver
nox>  i386/isa/sound/midibuf.c  optional        css     device-driver
nox>  i386/isa/sound/trix.c             optional        trix    device-driver
nox>  i386/isa/sound/adlib_card.c     optional        trix    device-driver
nox> 
nox>  (the box has no sound card so these files were not compiled before.)

Fixed the patch, thanks!


Seigo TANIMURA           |M2, Nakagawa Lab, Dept of Electronics & CS
=========================|Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National Univ
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VoxWare Midi Driver for Serial Ports on FreeBSD:
    http://www.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~tanimura/freebsd-serialmidi/
Seigo TANIMURA           |M2, Nakagawa Lab, Dept of Electronics & CS
=========================|Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National Univ
Powered by SIEMENS,      |http://www.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~tanimura/
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(25th Apr 1999) & muesli.|tanim...@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp tcar...@sakuramail.com

VoxWare Midi Driver for Serial Ports on FreeBSD:
    http://www.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~tanimura/freebsd-serialmidi/


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