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From: "Takashi Iwai" <iwai@ww.uni-erlangen.de>
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Subject: Re: OSS Seq / Timer
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>>>>> On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 23:21:38 +0100, Emil Stephan
<ste@esqhen.su.uunet.de> said: 

> Hello Takashi,
> no, i won't say that this way. It may be right with /dev/sequencer (mode
> 1)
> of the OSS driver. I used the /dev/sequencer2 (aka /dev/music) interface
> for years with GF1 timers of the GUS Classic (3.7). Never had better
> timings
> for playing MIDI. I have a MIDI file (Downtown from Petula Clark, a song
> of
> the sixties)

This is a slightly off-topic question.
In the current OSS seq emulation, /dev/sequencer2 is not implemented.
This is because I don't have any applications using this device.
The only one I konw is Jazz sequencer, but now it became Jazz++, and I
won't use it any more. 

So my question is:
/dev/sequencer2 is necessary?  what applications use it?

IMHO, /dev/sequencer2 seems even obsolete.  I couldn't find its
demand.  But the implementation would be relatively easy, because all
MIDI stuffs are already handled via sequencer interface. 

-- 
Takashi Iwai / iwai@ww.uni-erlangen.de
Department of Materials Science
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg

