Re: no MIDI input with dosemu ?

[Dave Phillips <dlphilp@bright.net>]

Greetings:

  The short story so far is that Stas Sergeev has posted a patch that 
gives MIDI input to CVS dosemu. I don't know whether Stas's patch is 
included with the new 1.2.0 dosemu, but I imagine it can be compiled 
against it anyway (Stas, any additional instructions for your patch + 
1.2.0 ?). This patch effectively gives full-strength to DOS MIDI 
sequencers such as Sequencer Plus and Cakewalk. Also, the current dosemu 
no longer requires explicit IRQ selection for Voyetra's vapimpu.com MIDI 
interface driver; furthermore, it now accepts the last version of that 
driver (1.51) which is now freely available from Voyetra's site. I'd 
love to see if it could support the vapimqx.com driver for my Music 
Quest MQX32M, but my machine has no ISA slot for the card.

  I'll be writing a summary HOWTO in the nest week or so and will notify 
this list when it's completed.

  Vast thanks to Stas, Bart, and all the dosemu developers for the 
amazing software they've created.

  WRT timing better than the host: I'm afraid I've mis-spoke myself. Of 
course the emulator cannot provide better system timing, but the 
application's coding can certainly be better. In the case of Seq+ I've 
played MIDI files without error that will not play correctly via MusE or 
Rosegarden. I believe Seq+ may have better timing resolution, and I know 
that it was a heavily optimized program for its day. I've sent the 
offending files to the ALSA and MusE developers, but the fact remains 
that I still get better performance out of Seq+. I apologize for the 
confusion regarding my statements.

Best regards,

Dave Phillips




Robert Komar wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ged Haywood wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Stas Sergeev wrote:
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>>>I don't know why the *recording* of a midi file can be better under
>>>dosemu that under linux. Even the midid, the helper program that
>>>comes with dosemu, can record the midi files very well.  From that
>>>point of view I don't see the value of implementing the midi
>>>recording under dosemu - you should be able to use dos-based progs
>>>even if you recorded the song under linux.  Feel free to explain
>>>[snip]
>>>(better not CCing to linux-msdos since it would be an off-topic here)
>>> if you would like.
>>>      
>>>
>>Please, if you don't continue the thread on the List, CC me too.
>>I have a friend who is very interested.  He plays a "SynthAxe"
>>(and it's astounding:).
>>
>>73,
>>Ged.
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>
>Hi,
>I'm also curious about how a user application like dosemu can provide
>better timing than the operating system.  Please continue this thread
>publicly!
>
>Cheers,
>Rob Komar
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