Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have written...
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> Speaking for myself, I can say that I still have playmidi installed, albeit
> version 2.3 instead of 2.4 (2.4 drums sound ugly on my wavetable for some
> reason I can't fathom; not a Debian problem per se, it's in upstream too).
Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); have
you tried 2.4 with the 2.3 drums files?
> AFAIK, nobody uses playmidi anymore.
I use it from time to time, and I think that it should be left in the archive
until most people are using 2.6-series kernels (and, thus, ALSA).
> Most sound cards these days don't even *come* with wavetable synthesis, and
> software synthesis (ie timidity) sounds so much better than FM synthesis.
I have an SBLive; it has an on-board synth, which sounds almost as good as
timidity (and has the advantage of using next to no CPU power).
OTOH, the only synth support for emu10k1 is in ALSA, although there's OSS
support for the MIDI port on these cards (but I don't have anything to plug
in there).
> The only reason I have playmidi installed is that I have a very nice
> wavetable synthesis daughter board, and playmidi is the only thing I've
> found that can use it.
Hmm... another reason to keep it, then.
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> For instance, what are some good replacements for magicfilter?
apsfilter seems to work well.
> Or linuxconf?
A text editor :-)
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