Wine sound discussion summary

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hello,

Roderick Colenbrander schreef:
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
>   
>>> Though, how would MIDI be handled. I think that OpenAL doesn't handle MIDI...
>>>       
>> Good question.
>>
>> As far as I can see PulseAudio doesn't support MIDI either, but it is certainly available in Alsa, CoreAudio and on Windows Vista, even though its more tricky to activate HW midi on Vista.
>>
>> Emulating MIDI through a software synthesizer won't fly, as this will make it impossible to use hardware instruments.
>>
>> A related topic: How do Joysticks connected to the gameport work(which is the same hardware connector as MIDI).  I think that a joystick already takes an entirely different path in the Linux kernel and it doesn't get anywhere near a sound system, so we don't have to bother about it. Is that correct?
>>
>>     
>
> Joysticks work using /dev/js or evdev these days. It was hard to find
> some info on MIDI for Vista but I believe it still works using WinMM.
> You really need oss or alsa for midi I think.
>   
I wouldn't be surprised if this still was the case, we could keep the 
midi interfaces around and just report 0 wave in/out devices for 
oss/coreaudio/alsaa once we complete wine7audio.drv.

Cheers,
Maarten.