Re: Do we need /dev/sequencer anymore?

Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM Christos Margiolis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I want to clean up and modernize sys/dev/sound/midi and I'm wondering
> > what the use-case for /dev/sequencer is nowadays, if any. Does anyone
> > know of any application, or someone, who relies on this? If not, I think
> > we could go ahead and get rid of it.
> 
> Although MIDI is not popular anymore for music generation in computer
> games, it is still widely used in music industry as protocol/bus for
> various keyboards and controllers, so I would not remove it if its
> there and working :-)
> 
> Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUPs2pv5d_g :-)

I am not proposing to remove MIDI support in general, just
/dev/sequencer. Regarding the rest of the MIDI codebase, I just want to
clean it up, fix bugs and in general modernize it.

Christos