Fair enough - I'm suprised though - I thought pretty much all games these days used pre-recorded music aince Windows couldn't (until recently) be relied on to provide a synthesiser if the sound card didn't have one. -- degs -----Original Message----- From: Johan Gill [mailto:johane(a)lysator.liu.se] Sent: 06 June 2002 15:23 To: degs; wine-devel(a)winehq.com Subject: Re: null midi device 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(a)lysator.liu.se