There is a jack port for FreeBSD, which basically should eliminate the need of alsa (not sure about the midi part though), but chances are, there are no drivers for your soundcard. However, I have no idea in what shape the jack port is.
Would be interesting to find out, how much worse the preempt kernel of recent FreeBSD is compared to linux, as so far I am quite happy with a preemtive only and non hard-realtime kernel.
Nevertheless FreeBSD audio would be a great thing. Arch using AUR is a pain to maintain, having two repositories sucks big time and I remember some package wouldn't even build because a somewhat central dependency was removed due to dead upstream, that Ubuntu based stuff is most horrible bloat and the FreeBSD Ports tree can't be much more out of date or lacking than the gentoo pro-audio overlay, unless this has changed recently. I'd love to go back to gentoo.
Anyway, we can as well wait for a dragonfly pro audio release or ressurection of BEOS. Won't happen, unless WE do it.
Anyway, dreaming is allowed and all the best for 2015 Am 05.01.2015 um 15:44 schrieb Brent Busby:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
They have Ardour. They just dont have Alsa, or a kernel that's any good for realtime. And this is coming from a FreeBSD fan.
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