From kde-core-devel Thu Jun 05 12:02:18 2003 From: Unai Garro Arrazola Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:02:18 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: dropping kmidi? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105482549628600 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 June 2003 22:24, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > - timidity is just a make-do solution, music composing on Linux doesn't > rely on it at all. Many Alsa-supported cards have hardware synth (the SB > Live! being one of the most popular). That's right, but I am mainly talking about laptops. Most laptops have half-baked hardware, like winmodems, and "win"soundcards. Composing music is just a hobby that I have, so I cannot afford too much money just to buy specific hardware for just that purpose. I have a laptop, so why not use it to compose music? > If you're serious about composing, I'm only half serious. I spent several years studying music, but it's only a hobby anyway. I even own a digital yamaha piano which I can control through serial/midi ports, for which I started to make some small software a while ago, but I have a serious problem right now: my new laptop comes without serial ports (great mistake), and the USB connection requires additional hardware and drivers. > and certainly not a software synth I don't see anything wrong with software synthesizing. It allows you not to be attached to huge hardware. I cannot drag my piano to the beach! ;-) > > - MIDI is a musicians tool. The typical user will hardly ever have any use > for it. kmidi could drop from the face of the earth right now, hardly > anyone would notice. Well, I would really miss it. And most users probably will have noticed so far that some web-pages that play music in IE, don't seem to work in linux due to midi support :-( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3zFNhxDfDIoZlaURAq3zAJ9YDGhFKZ1tx9rNfHCI5hWguooiSACeLma5 8dcrA/I7CvrjtwOtZoLwxr4= =+wVD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----