Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

[victor]

What you say does not make any sense to me. The MIDI
standard is *one* of many, and in fact the poorest of them
all. Besides Csound is probably the most used computer music
language with composers of Computer Music and its 
score an integral part of it. But it is not the only way that
can be used to run it: MIDI, OSC, API event calls, etc.,
are also possible.

If anything we should promote better standards than limit
ourselves to a very poor one.

Victor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan at gmail.com>
To: "victor" <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie>
Cc: <devel at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO


> On Jan 19, 2008 4:33 PM, victor <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie> wrote:
> 
>> I can't speak for TamTam because I am not involved in their
>> design details, but I can say this, Csound's standard score
>> preceeds MIDI by at least a decade (or two if you consider where
>> it came from). It is much more flexible to convey musical data
>> than MIDI. There are MIDI to csound score converters, but
>> that is beside the point, because Csound can play MIDI files
>> directly, receive realtime MIDI data and even output it.
>> There is no problem whatsoever, with the proper instruments,
>> Csound will be a MIDI synthesizer like any other. The main
>> thing is, that it is not limited to it (thank goodness...).
> 
> How about showing some support for standards by
> dropping the non-standard stuff? You can #ifdef it.
> Maybe you can even save a few bytes.
> 
> If you really must, you can embed the non-standard
> stuff into a MIDI file. It's better to avoid non-standard
> stuff entirely of course, and any extended MIDI file
> had better play decently on a standard MIDI player.