On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:35:55AM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:00:26AM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:02:33PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > > Midiplay requires a midi synth to produce sounds. We dropped support > > > for OPL2-style chips, as we've two softsynths in ports to render > > > midi. Both already handle .mid files, so midiplay is not very useful > > > anymore. > > > > > > Objections to remove it? > > > > What is the alternative for hardware synths? > > There would be no alternative in base. But there are ports that can > play .mid files (and much more), the smfplay utility coming with > audio/midish is very similar to midiplay: > > > I used to use this to send sysex messages to reset my mt32 and play > > midi files back when I still had a machine with a midi interface > > (via a pci soundcard). > > The plan is to add a new midicat utility very soon, which can be used, > amongst others, to send sysex files (assuming .syx file format, aka > raw midi data). > > However, it's very easy to extend it to handle .mid files, so if you > think .mid file support in base should stay, I'll do so. > > What do you think?
If there is something comparable in ports or base that is fine. It has been a long time since I had everything hooked up and need to get around to getting a usb midi adapter one day. I think I may have just cat'd the reset to the raw midi device. Probably looked something like the below which is indeed raw midi. $ hexdump -C RESET.SYX 00000000 f0 41 10 16 12 7f 01 f7 |.A......| 00000008
