Re: App database, libsynth

Ryan Underwood
2003-07-14T21:06:00Z

Hi Stas,

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:43:58PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Ryan Underwood wrote:
> >>Overall I might be misunderstanding you, but it
> >Definitely not :)
> Then why do you think it is necessary for
> midid to use your server? For overall
> completeness? Do it an ALSA-compatible I
> would say, and if someone is ever to find
> it usefull for midid to talk to your OPL3
> server, that can be easily implemented, but
> I don't think it can have any use.

Ok :)

> >However, the user might like to use an OPL-emulated chip
> >for playing MIDI music from DOS programs that don't
> >support OPL for music.
> Yes, but what's the use? What is the use??
> Is it because someone have a very limited
> internet connection to download the timidity
> and all the samples for it? Or too slow CPU
> to power up the timidity? But I think MAME
> OPL emu eats even more CPU than the timidity
> does:)

Nah, some people (like me) just like that FM sound. Perhaps I am crazy?
:) Probably...

> OK, never mind. If you do that lib and you
> think it is usefull for midid to be able to
> use it - then it is.

The lib for direct access comes first priority because we need working
FM in dosemu. Currently I have it spawning a synthd and talking to it,
but sometimes it doesn't clean up after itself, and the concurrent
usage of libsynth by multiple programs is not working. Also I need to
hack dosemu to use it, I am testing it only with wolf3d for the moment.

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