null midi device

Johan Gill johane at lysator.liu.se
Thu Jun 6 09:22:58 CDT 2002


degs wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I can't see much benefit to a timidity output in Wine - it seems like an
>awful lot of effort for little return. Very few general purpose Windows
>applications actually do MIDI output. The exceptions would be: (very) old
>games; MIDI file players (plenty of UNIX replacements for these) and music
>production software. No one seriously using music production software is
>going to want a MIDI output connected to timidity - the audio quality is not
>good enough, and if they did want to use it I'd imagine the latancy/timeing
>would not be tight enough.
>
>-- degs
>
Final Fantasy VII uses midi for music, that's my reason.

/Johan Gill, johane at lysator.liu.se





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