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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Nifty sound toys anyone? Message-ID: <hastyCG75J1.5xx@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CG6Izt.6L@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 23:35:24 GMT Lines: 69 In article <CG6Izt.6L@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes: >Hey, > >I just got the FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE sound stuff compiled into the kernel. >I had no problems. The kernel saw the sound board the first time. > >The drivers are HUGE! > >So, mu question is this: What do I do with it? Anyone know where I can >get some good toys? > > Jim I own a Gravis UltraSound card and a PAS16;however, I use my GUS exclusively. Check out xboing it is a cool paddle program you will like it. I tend to play midi files with my GUS both under DOS and Unix;however, my Unix utility sounds better than the DOS one :-) to play midi files, I use adagio from the linux group so do archie to locate it. You can record music of a CD by connecting the audio line out to the line in. the command is very simple cat /dev/sb >your_favorite_song to playback cat /your_favorite_song >/dev/sb For DOS and GUS, there is an amazing demo called 2ndReality which puts out cool Dolby surround sound and it has some nifty graphics to go with the demo. Definitly worth checking out. There is ntracker to play amiga mod files by far one of the most popular music format in the net;however, it does not compared in sound quality nor in versatility to midi. I just bought a midi keyboard so I can start playing around with my GUS. I have a couple of Windows programs to help me compose music. You can also record midi files with the Unix driver and I will be able to report on this later on this week since I don't know how to do it right now. You can have fun by getting a mike if you don't already own one so you can add voice notes or whatever to some of your X apps. There is a ton of low fidelity sun au files if you want already sampled sounds. I am hoping that with the driver in placed that some of the netters will start getting creative with the new sound drivers deployed. Good Luck and Happy Jamming! Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X