On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:58:37AM +0200, peters@schwertfisch.de wrote:
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> Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:58:22AM +0200, peters@schwertfisch.de wrote:
> >
> > > On the application side, I remember seeing a preliminary port of Ardour
> > > to OpenBSD, but it seems to have disappeared.
> >
> > Ardour uses jackd as it's hardware interface.  there is a sndio audio
> > backend for jackd in ports/packages, but there is no midi backends in
> > jackd that work on OpenBSD.
> >
> > although the ardour port you mention "worked", it was not really
> > usable.  I haven't had much interest in ardour in a while.
> 
> Well, considering the fact that OpenBSD can do multi-track
> recording right out of the box, maybe there is no real need for an
> application like ardour...

The main problem is that we have no way to keep audio and
MIDI in sync, neither there's a way to start multiple audio
programs simultaneously. This means that we're stuck in
using only one program at a time.

jack tries to solve the problem, but aucat -- as some other
apps -- can't work with it.

imo, that's the most urgent problem to solve.

-- Alexandre